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The ME community protested against PACE’s oppressive bad science on 12th May. Guest post by Catherine Hale.

…is that there are so many problems with PIP it is difficult to know where to start. An update on the Personal Independence Payment.

Update on the UN investigation of the UK Government, which found evidence of grave and systemic violations to Disabled people’s rights in the UK under welfare reform since 2010.

In March we were in Geneva with ROFA to give evidence at the UN, presenting our Shadow Report, which documents how British Government policies since 2010 have created regression against nearly every article under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Are you in the Work Related Activity Group, and want to legally challenge the £30 a week cut to your Employment and Support Allowance? Please get in touch.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has just published the most comprehensive analysis ever on how the rights of Disabled people are protected in Great Britain.

Take the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime survey to enable them to provide a better service to victims of all forms of hate crime.

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has investigated the UK Government and made findings of grave and systemic violations. We set out below the background, legal framework, the inquiry findings and the significance of those findings.

Luke Davey is a disabled adult, who had been living in his own home with almost 24 hour support for 18 years. The local authority assessed Davey as having an ‘eligible need’ to enhance his ‘independence’ by spending more time alone, and concluded that his eligible needs could be met with a reduction in his ‘personal budget’ from £1651 to £950.

DPAC and Inclusion London’s 70 page response to the Inquiry by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of People with Disabilities and the UK Government response, detailing our serious concern at the Government’s approach.