This week marks one year since Black April: the month that saw multiple, simultaneous benefit cuts piled in on the people living with disability, illness and poverty. This is not an anniversary for cards and chocolates. More an eviction notice in a brown envelope or a voucher for the local food bank.
Category Archives: disability
There's a better way to support disabled people – listen to us, for starters
Disabled people are being failed in every way by employment and support allowance and the Work Programme. The Spartacus network’s new report has an alternative vision
Disabled people protest at Westminster against cuts in their benefits
Sue Marsh
The Guardian, Wednesday 9 April 2014
Disabled people protest hardest hit
Disabled people protest at Westminster against cuts in their benefits Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian
Employment and support allowance (ESA), the benefit that provides support if you are too ill or become so disabled that you cannot work, is failing on every level.
Why is it too difficult to treat disabled people as human beings?
A year on, people living with disability, illness and poverty are paying the price for the coalition’s multiple welfare reforms
Disabled girl ‘lost in the system’ by Birmingham City Council for four years
Birmingham City Council “singularly failed” a disabled child “lost in the system” for more than four years, the Local Government Ombudsman has ruled.
A report said the authority failed to contact the girl’s mother from November 2006 to March 2011 to assess support payments.
It added social workers had not identified the girl’s “complex needs” and left her mother to raise her alone.
The council has agreed to pay £5,000 following the ombudsman’s report.
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