Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout loud enough to drown out this tide of abuse against us. Disability Hate Crime, lack of full legal protection, people in care homes costing too much to be let out and not one political party willing to fight for us.
Thursday, 11 August 2011
BREAKING NEWS! DWP Admits Dodgy Data Use
On the same day the UK Statistics Authority say the DWP must improve the way it presents data on disability benefit claims the DWP is forced to admit that it based sweeping disability reforms affecting hundreds of thousands of sick and disabled people on dodgy data.
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Volunteers for ESA documentary required
Anyone remember "Cathy Come Home"?
Remember how gritty it was, and how it changed public perceptions?
Now we have a chance to do a day by day, blow by blow account of being
disabled, on benefits and terrified of the outcome of an upcoming WCA
or ESA appeal.
What will it involve?
Spending time with you and your family (or the people you live with),
and demonstrating the fears, risks and pitfalls and financial
implications of the WCA and not getting the ESA.
We are thinking that we may need 9 or 12 people, not all of which will
be used, but if we have that many then we can hopefully get a true
picture. There is no upper limit to volunteers, obviously, but the
final piece will be editted to have the most powerful impact.
It doesn't actually matter if your condition is mental health,
physical health, constant, fluctuating or stable, or any combination
of conditions. Or if you are a carer.
Fear of the DWP may stop some people, but for those of us who have put
our faces out there already, I dont know of one single person who has
been targetted by the DWP, or any other organisation.
In fact, having your story out there may actually work as protection.
You will not be portrayed as fiddling the system if you are found fit
for work, I suspect quite the opposite will happen and you will be
shown to have significant problems that prevent you from being as
employable as others on JSA.
Its time the tide turned, and the producer is keen to do this.
If you want more info, you can email me, and we can chat about it, or
use this thread.
Can you also spread the word as much as possible to other sites?
Ta very much, please feel free to contact us to discuss it if you are
at all concerned, or fascinated!
You can view some of his work here to get a feel of it;
http://vimeo.com/3863905
contact me on hossylass@gmail.com
Remember how gritty it was, and how it changed public perceptions?
Now we have a chance to do a day by day, blow by blow account of being
disabled, on benefits and terrified of the outcome of an upcoming WCA
or ESA appeal.
What will it involve?
Spending time with you and your family (or the people you live with),
and demonstrating the fears, risks and pitfalls and financial
implications of the WCA and not getting the ESA.
We are thinking that we may need 9 or 12 people, not all of which will
be used, but if we have that many then we can hopefully get a true
picture. There is no upper limit to volunteers, obviously, but the
final piece will be editted to have the most powerful impact.
It doesn't actually matter if your condition is mental health,
physical health, constant, fluctuating or stable, or any combination
of conditions. Or if you are a carer.
Fear of the DWP may stop some people, but for those of us who have put
our faces out there already, I dont know of one single person who has
been targetted by the DWP, or any other organisation.
In fact, having your story out there may actually work as protection.
You will not be portrayed as fiddling the system if you are found fit
for work, I suspect quite the opposite will happen and you will be
shown to have significant problems that prevent you from being as
employable as others on JSA.
Its time the tide turned, and the producer is keen to do this.
If you want more info, you can email me, and we can chat about it, or
use this thread.
Can you also spread the word as much as possible to other sites?
Ta very much, please feel free to contact us to discuss it if you are
at all concerned, or fascinated!
You can view some of his work here to get a feel of it;
http://vimeo.com/3863905
contact me on hossylass@gmail.com
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