Won’t somebody please think of the millionaires?

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Tories block Disability News Service from receiving press releases, and stop answering its calls and emails

Disability News Service (DNS) has been blocked by Conservative head office from receiving any of the party’s press releases or even submitting media requests. The move appears to have followed a se…

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Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” No doubt it will be advised by or feature familiar names, looking for evidence to support the conclusions they’ve already jumped to, coincidentally supporting the removal of government support.

Owned by billionaire once described as “the meanest landlord in Britain"

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Homeless families in London temporary housing told not to use air conditioning

They’re already conditional! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Burnham to make some benefits conditional and ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare

New prime minister has also warned that ‘the NHS will collapse’ unless he fixes social care

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Yet the week that the Lampard Inquiry heard about the lack of evidence for Oxevision (now rebranded as LIO health), Oxfordshire Mind accepted their money in a corporate fundraising/promotion deal. An outrageous and disappointing decision @mind.org.uk

Stop Oxevision@stopoxevision.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is no "strong independent evidence" that [Oxevision] has improved patient safety, an inquiry has heard [The experts] concluded the studies did "not provide strong independent evidence of improved patient safety, acceptability or cost effectiveness" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Our findings suggest that, without focused climate mitigation efforts, temperature-related suicide mortality could increase substantially in the coming decades owing to rising temperatures, underscoring the urgent need for integrated public health strategies /1 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Multi-country projections of temperature-related suicide mortality - Nature Mental Health

Using data from 751 locations in 26 countries and climate projections under 3 emissions scenarios, this study models temperature–suicide associations and projects future temperature-related suicide mo...

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The Conservative party has dodged regulatory action on its repeated false claims that spending on social security is “spiralling out of control”. #SocialSecurity #Conservatives www.disabilitynewsservice.com/regulator-gi...

Regulator gives Tories green light to keep saying ‘welfare is spiralling out of control’… even though it’s not

The Conservative party has dodged regulatory action on its repeated false claims that spending on social security is “spiralling out of control”. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has been…

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The DWP are bastards. Their staff are bastards. You have to have a part of your soul missing to work for the DWP. inews.co.uk/news/dwp-sta...

DWP staff steal £600,000 in benefits meant for vulnerable people

The government body has been told to ‘get its house in order’ after ‘shocking’ employee fraud

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... “Stop Oxevision said “We don't ever think that there is a time when anyone should have to face that kind of surveillance in their bedroom, especially people who were trying to recover from mental illness””

Monitoring system for mental heath patients in spotlight

The system which tracks pulse and breathing rates, and takes images is used by a number of trusts.

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🚨 JUST IN: a record number of people are going without essentials, like food and bills. New research by @jrf-uk.bsky.social reveals that 7.4 million households have gone without at least one essential in 6 months. This is a stark reminder that the cost of living crisis is far from over.

Particularly raging about Healey as chancellor and Pat McFadden keeping his job Tories also just confirmed my nightmares 😡

Today’s cabinet appointments indicate that Burnham just wants to impose more of the same racist ableist warmongering neoliberalism but with a Northern accent. What a wasted opportunity.

Healey at Treasury and McFadden in DWP says the war machine has the purse ratings and social security is on the chopping block. Disastrous.

Yet another paper about Oxevision (now LIO health) has been retracted. How many more? Will the NHS finally accept the lack of evidence for this technology and its fundamentally flawed research? #RetractionWatch @retractionwatch.com #MadSky journals.plos.org/digitalhealt...

Lamp, a brilliant survivor-led charity in Leicester, are looking for a Treasurer at the moment. Please share with your networks, and if interested do please apply via this link below…. reachvolunteering.org.uk/opp/treasure...

This writer is disabled himself. Behind a paywall,it attacks people with disabilities whilst justifying it with his own disability. He has form for attack articles on the disabled, people on benefits,pensioners, presumably feeling he’s immune from attack because he tows the line of those who hate us

Simple solution - stop means testing Carers’ Allowance. They save this country billions and yet get treated like shit. PS the DWP can piss off as well www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Scores of carers overpaid more than £20,000 last year despite reforms

DWP measures aimed to end carer’s allowance scandal yet in 2025-26 there were 32,559 overpayments

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Oxehealth, the makers of Oxevision (now rebranded as LIO health), have long boasted that they supply 50% of NHS mental health Trusts in England. However, as a result of our campaign and increased scrutiny of the technology, we can now reveal this number is down to just 36%! #MadSky #StopOxevision

"The steering group is constrained to stick within currently predicted spending" Disabled people are being asked to 'coproduce' cuts. As in The Care Crisis by Emma Dowling, this is Participatory Austerity. Labour's #PIP review is about the ideological needs of politicians, nothing else.

Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 3w ago

Disability minister leading PIP review warns there ‘may well be reductions’ in spending #TimmsReview #PIP #PIPreview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d...

Our thoughts, love, rage and solidarity are with Elise Sebastian's family now and always. You did her proud with your evidence. We will not stop fighting until Oxevision is banned www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mother tells Lampard Inquiry: 'Don't let blood be on your hands'

The mum of Elise Sebastian, who died in a mental health unit, gives evidence to the Lampard Inquiry.

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DWP removes PIP deaths and harm figures from annual report, just as Timms publishes findings from his PIP review #PIP #DWP #TimmsReview #BenefitDeaths www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d...

PIP review: DWP removes PIP deaths and harm figures from annual report, just as Timms publishes findings

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hid figures showing how many cases of death and serious harm of personal independence payment (PIP) claimants it had investigated, on the same day it publ…

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Higher pension ages because pensions are unaffordable, slashing benefits because benefits are unaffordable, next to no access to NHS dentistry and huge waiting lists for NHS care, but there’s always money for war

Declassified UK@declassifieduk.org · 3w ago

Govt says it's spending £26bn on turning three naval bases into "warfighting-ready facilities". This includes Britain's Trident nuclear base at Clyde. Is this a deliberate message to the world that the UK is readying its nuclear arms for war-fighting? www.gov.uk/government/n...

Anyone who thinks claiming benefits is easy has never claimed benefits. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Labour must stop just writing a cheque for benefit claimants, says McFadden

Exclusive: Work and pensions secretary signals possible reform to welfare as ministers await key reviews

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Labour looking out for the workers and allowing us to work till we die

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Complainants in a court case claim Meta used AI to identify which workers to sack - without accounting for disabilities or parental leave By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

Meta used AI to lay off disabled workers

Complainants in a court case claim Meta used AI to identify which workers to sack - without accounting for disabilities or parental leave

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In other news…. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK healthy life expectancy falls by two years in past decade

Poor housing, obesity and the effects of deprivation have been suggested as underlying cause.

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Life under neoliberalism. No wonder the current travesty of a Labour Party is hated. “The government is pushing ahead with proposals to bring the planned rise in the state pension age to 68 ahead by at least seven years…” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Millions to retire later under state pension age increase plans

Around five millions workers could lose out under the plans, according to a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility

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Lamp, a brilliant survivor-led charity in Leicester, are looking for a Treasurer at the moment. Please share with your networks, and if interested do please apply via this link below…. reachvolunteering.org.uk/opp/treasure...