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🚨 New briefing out today!

Our latest analysis looks at the challenges faced by renters in the Private Rented Sector (PRS)

We've identified a few distinct but connected ways of understanding the affordability pressures that private renters are facing 🔽

It‘s evident Stonewall have decided to appoint someone to try & find a middle way between those who believe in trans rights & those who wish to take all of their rights away. There is no middle way though, as the transphobic lobby are hate-filled bigots who don‘t even want trans people to exist

Am really sorry to hear that. This kind of thing shouldn’t be happening but is unfortunately way too common an occurrence

Over 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after hospital infection Over 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital - these were all people who had attended for another reason, be it surgery, cancer treatment, or following ...

This should be a national scandal. But won’t be.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Government must do far more to co-produce mental health reforms, minister is told by disabled campaigners The government has been told to do far more to place people with learning difficulties and autistic people at the heart of its controversial Mental Health Act reforms. A disabled-led network of org…

The government has been told to do far more to place people with learning difficulties and autistic people at the heart of its controversial Mental Health Act reforms.
#MentalHealthAct
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-m...

A #Motability customer has launched a legal action against the Treasury over budget measures that he says will put at risk the mobility “lifeline” the scheme provides to disabled people.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-c...

Coroners are asked to do more to question role of DWP in deaths, as they receive crowdfunded book Coroners across England and Wales have been asked to do more to question the role of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the deaths of benefit claimants before they carry out inquests. Th…

Coroners across England and Wales have been asked to do more to question the role of the Department for Work and Pensions in the deaths of benefit claimants before they carry out inquests.
#DWP #Inquests
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/coroners-are...

Welfare Reform Act 2012 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/201 2/5/section/19 • • • S19(1) & (2)(a) 19Claimants subject to no work-related requirements (1) The Secretary of State may not impose any work-related requirement on a claimant falling within this section. (2)A claimant falls within this section if— (a)the claimant has limited capability for work and work-related activity,

19 Claimants subject to no work-related requirements (1) The Secretary of State may not impose any work-related requirement on a claimant falling within this section. A claimant falls within this section if— (a) the claimant has limited capability for work and work-related activity,

13 Work-related requirements: introductory (1) This Chapter provides for the Secretary of State to impose work-related requirements with which claimants must comply for the purposes of this Part. (2) In this Part "work-related requirement" means— (a) a work-focused interview requirement (see section 15); (b) a work preparation requirement (see section 16); (c) a work search requirement (see section 17); (d) a work availability requirement (see section 18). (3) The work-related requirements which may be imposed on a claimant depend on which of the following groups the claimant falls into— (a) no work-related requirements (see section 19); (b) work-focused interview requirement only (see section 20); (c) work-focused interview and work preparation requirements only (see section 21); (d) all work-related requirements (see section 22).

Suggested reply is : I am in the LCWRA group with no work-related requirements. I politely decline this offer as it is my right to do so with no adverse inference or risk of sanction.

Then add any additional info about risk and harm

see the law below www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/5...

First thought: Have we really sunk that low as a nation?

Second thought: Yes. Yes of course we bloody have. I'm more surprised that I'm surprised, honestly.

As a younger person with a blue badge, the harassment I get from elderly people is madness. Knocking on my door, shouting at me, parking behind me, threatening to ring the police etc

Really sorry to hear that’s been happening to you, that’s really awful

Switch to Universal Credit is robbing thousands of ‘most vulnerable people’ Shared from the Camden New Journal with thanks by Tom Foot, 9 April 2026 Disabled people are being robbed of benefits due to overhaul of the system designed to “scrape” some of the most…

Switch to Universal Credit is robbing thousands of ‘most vulnerable people’, reports @newjournal.bsky.social

The Government have failed to protect thousands of vulnerable people who have been forced to negotiate a complicated switch over to Universal Credit.

Read the full story 👇

Anyone saying you have to axe public services to pay for war, is the enemy. Not someone from outside your borders, not someone from some ‘other’ ‘evil’ regime. No, it is the person in your country saying war is better than society.
Fuck.
Them.

Blue badge holders: how are you treated by other members of the public when out? Have you experienced reactions from other people when using your blue badge? We’d like to hear from you

Do contribute to this if you’ve been on the end of the increasing level of abuse people with blue badges receive. Govt & media hate campaigns against disabled people have real life consequences

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...?

We have noticed, as well as this, that many more people without blue badges are parking in disabled-designated spaces. The two issues aren’t unconnected - if someone has contempt or no respect for disabled people, why would they care about respecting disabled-designated spaces?

More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent years

More than a fifth of all “austerity generation” British children have been scarred by poverty for at least half their childhood, a new study shows.

This is the legacy of the Tory governments who proudly gutted the safety net by tens of billions. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Screenshot is of a Financial Times headline that reads: senior NHS officials warned over criticising rollout of Palantir platform. Subheading reads: ethical objections and uneven adoption have made the tech group’s contract a divisive issue within English health service.

Disturbing. NHS staff should be able to freely raise concerns about the entrenchment of this utterly unethical spy-tech firm in our healthcare system.

The largest municipal healthcare network in the US has dropped Palantir after significant protests.

We must do the same, before it's too late.

The effects of ageing and a rising state pension age on incapacity benefits caseloads - Office for Budget Responsibility The rise in incapacity benefits after 2013-14 coincided with a rise in the state pension age. In this box we explained how much of the change in incapacity benefit caseload was explained by rises in t...

Very interesting report from the OBR about how rises in claims for incapacity benefits after 2013-14 coincided with a rise in the state pension age.

obr.uk/box/the-effe...

Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS Private firms providing services to the NHS including healthcare and consultancy have made £1.6bn in profits over the last two years, research reveals. The findings – on the basis of contracts worth £12bn – have prompted claims of “scandalous” profiteering, concern that the health service is being “taken for a ride” and calls for ministers to impose a cap on maximum profit levels. £2bn of the £12bn of contracts went to firms with owners based outside the UK. £533m of that £2bn went to companies owned by people living in tax havens such as Jersey and the Cayman Islands. Firms, especially those owned by private equity outfits, used £353m of their £12bn NHS income to pay interest on debts. Continue reading...

Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds

a cartoon character says good news everyone Alt: a cartoon character says good news everyone

Orban concedes.
news.sky.com/story/hungar...

Mental health nurse who tried to kick patient is allowed to return to work Marie Fiske, a mental health nurse from Middlesbrough, has been permitted to return to work after she "attempted to kick" a patient.

Not surprising, sadly. Mistreatment of patients in normalised within the mental health system

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2601102...

It was never about pride, it was about tagging your local area as unwelcoming to anyone who isn’t white or English

DWP forcing disabled people into work - but no plan for Access to Work increase Just as the DWP is hell-bent on forcing disabled people into work, it's also quietly cutting Access to Work. Make it make sense.

DWP forcing disabled people into work - but no plan for Access to Work increase

Just as the DWP is hell-bent on forcing disabled people into work, it's also quietly cutting Access to Work. Make it make sense says @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

The government is now making disabled people wait until 2029 for more 'recommendations' on inaccessible transport. Meg Barnett from @transportforall.org.uk says the new strategy "doesn't deal with the real issue".
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/the-governme...

From this week, severely ill and disabled people making new benefit claims will receive lower Universal Credit health element payments than existing claimants if their conditions aren’t deemed "severe and lifelong", with no prospect of improvement. 1/3

1 in 3 terminally ill people aren't claiming DWP benefits The DWP are such a disaster that a shocking 1 in 3 terminally ill people don't claim benefits as the process is such a nightmare

The DWP are such a disaster that a shocking 1 in 3 terminally ill people don't claim benefits because the process is such a nightmare

By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

Disabled Panorama interviewee calls out BBC bias A disabled woman has accused BBC Panorama of wilfully misrepresenting her experiences, as the programme leads ableist pile-on

A disabled woman has accused BBC Panorama of wilfully misrepresenting her experiences, as the programme leads ableist pile-on

By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

Ahhhh yes the government is not a medical specialist. I agree they have no right to weigh in on who or how many have medical issues. Their only roll is to keep costs low for anyone who needs some extra support or medication for any and every medical reason.