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Is it just media
Is this just the media saying labour carrying on with 3 billion cuts to wca ?
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Reforms
From what I've been seeing the government are still going to try and push ahead with reforms to benifits even though their cruel plans were rejected in court .... It seems pip was always in the firing line but from what I've been seeing it's the wca descriptors that will see the most change , up to 450000 people could…
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Ellen Clifford
she won!!! https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/disabled-people-win-court-battle-for-welfare-rights/
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High Court win...fantastic effort by this lady
DWP's 'misleading and unfair' consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-disability-benefits-reforms-consultation-ruling/
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Party political advert
Well was very shocked when they did this was all talk around working people working people must be clutching at straws never seen that before but yes working working people was mentioned rumours times
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Torston belly
Intreasting article in telegraph about Torston Bell could scope look into
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Why a constant attack on vunerable
Why is this gov putting forward more plans to bully the vunerable..All are so misinformed what crippling anxiety and depression involves
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Press bias
https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/01/09/media-coverage-benefit-claimants/
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Mps
Are there any mps fighting for disabled welfare reforms when will we hear about ellen clifford and echr reports
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DWP’s chief medical adviser dismisses importance of her own department’s reviews into benefit deaths
From DNS - "only 5 PFD reports" in 16 months 😶 By John Pring on 9th January 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty The chief medical adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over why she dismissed the importance of hundreds of secret reviews carried out by her own department into the deaths…
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Liz kendell
I found very sinister The way liz kendell responded to question something like don't you feel bad for ladies trying to claim payback for pensions she's said NO !!!
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Article about migration from esa to uc causing issues.
Read an article from disability news was saying that the migration from esa to uc was affecting alot of disabled people as to many mistakes they said they didn't have the time to so safeguarding ??? !
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Ellen clifford court case
Any updates can't find any
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Possible PIP government study?
So the government doing a study on pip and how it's spent that will come out in the summer scope was mentioned why haven't scope communicated this
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Link to Social Prescribing
Hello All, no need to respond to this message; it's just to say that the link to Social Prescribing is below (I am not involved with this organisation). Best wishes, E xx https://mailchi.mp/a38b5d2cbb45/the-social-prescribing-network-december-2024-newsletter?e=10808b00f4 For example, here is a link to what is happening in…
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No local elections
What are people's thoughts on no local elections
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Trigger Warning topic (Assisted dying bill)
Remove if not allowed. Are we allowed to discuss the assisted dying bill on here? It's in the news today about Canada. In Canada they intend to include mental illness from 2027. It's quite obvious to me that if we pass anything through, gradually things change and get added by various governments. I have huge concerns over…
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Help
hi I’m disabled I have a lot of illnesses long term, I have scoliosis of the spine, fibromyalgia, I’m asthmatic, diabetic, have psoriasis which is all over my body, I suffer with depression and anxiety, I’m classed as morbidly obese and have arthritis , suffer with migraines I was on the high rate for mobility and middle…
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Banning social media for under 16s
This came up on question time last night that Australia plans to ban the use of social media to those under 16. I found an article on it. I have to say when smart phones came out I assumed these would not be for anyone under 16. As adults we already know what content we can be exposed to, we already know we can be addicted…
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France
What does it mean that the French parliament has folded ? Is that a good or bad thing