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The Department for Work and Pensions has hidden the truth from a coroner about its role in a disabled woman’s suicide, allowing ministers to avoid having to explain how they would prevent more benefit claimants taking their own lives. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-hides-tr...

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Pathways to work consultation…or not? www.independent.co.uk/voices/dwp-d...

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Let’s start at the very beginning, which, I’m reliably informed, is a very good place to start. #LivedExperience #LXP #PeerSupport #Disability #CollectiveAction open.substack.com/pub/squarepe...

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Real question: If the part of Labour that aren't actively trying to destroy the country do manage to force through a conversion therapy bill, could we push to get Wes Streeting prosecuted under it?

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This will further medicalise human distress. It’s time the UK gov’t invested in community crisis houses staffed by survivors where holistic humane alternatives to iatrogenic harms of pathologisation of suffering would be more effective. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Would you like to contribute to NSUN’s Pathways to Work Green Paper consultation response? This form's purpose is to gather views from those with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, or trauma on proposed changes to Disability benefits. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." - Joseph Heller

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www.disabilitynewsservice.com/research-tha...

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This is the petition by Deaf and Disabled People and their Organisations that opposes the entire Green Paper. Please sign & share it. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

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Trying to type dandelion with a migraine resulted in me conjuring the (non)word fandlededuck & I’m going to call them that from now on & insist it’s an arcane name handed down by the wise old gods

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Short blog idenitifying ethical issues when working with suicide, and promoting the action/consequences model as an aid to ethical thinking: www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Afternoon, chums! I'd be delighted if you'd cast your eye over the latest post from the world of Square Pegs. It would be even betterer if you'd, like, subscribe and share it about the place Your Sphere of Influence open.substack.com/pub/squarepe...

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We are working to highlight the impact of Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling on our communities. If you're a trans (including non-binary) person, intersex, a cis woman that disagrees with the ruling and/or doesn't meet White western beauty standards. And..

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Let's see if we can get this to 100,000 signatures. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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It's a year since I showed up to my Alternatives to Suicide facilitator training, convinced I would meet other UK folx and we'd be a network. Only to realise it was just me, becoming a 'talking about suicide is good' nerd.

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To all my trans friends and allies - I have no idea what the repercussions of today’s court ruling will have, but I’m fairly certain they’ll be awful. All my love and solidarity to you beautiful people ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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“I was in a constant state of hypervigilance. I was completely traumatised.” Oxevision cameras are being installed above patients’ beds in NHS mental health units causing fear, retraumatisation and even linked to deaths. This isnt safety. This is surveillance. #StopOxevision tinyurl.com/4wmvmn53

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The broadcasting watchdog has failed millions of disabled people by clearing two television programmes of disability discrimination and causing offence, including one in which some young people on disability benefits were described as “parasites”.

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The tabloids front-paging Russell Brand’s video so everyone watches it—where he claims being charged today with rape is part of a global “woke” conspiracy—makes me sick as a VAWG survivor. They platform the accused while the victims can’t speak.

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House of Commons Work & Pensions Committee launches short inquiry into DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper which seeks to cut benefits. they are not putting out a call for evidence www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/work-an...

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For those on the right who are cheering on the prospect of benefit cuts, please remember you could become Disabled or lose your job at any time.

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Two weeks today.

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Labour's Disability benefit reforms will push 340,000 people into poverty, exacerbating the harms of a welfare system that is already killing people. NSUN is appalled by these proposals (1/3).

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From Private Eye…..

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www.disabilitynewsservice.com/chancellor-r...

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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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An online education provider has been accused of “blatant discrimination” after charging disabled students thousands of pounds more a year than non-disabled students for the same qualifications.

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The Department for Work and Pensions has admitted it has no figures to show how many disabled people who cannot work are having their benefits “sanctioned”, just as the government announced reforms that will expose many more to strict conditions.

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Do you think the government are familiar with the Equality Act 2010?

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We need living experience voices in places where devastating decisions are made about us. Square Pegs Experts By Experience Community Interest Company is a place where we can build. Take a look and join up. substack.com/@squarepegsu...

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Is IPS all it is cracked up to be? Would it surprise you to learn its efficacy is over claimed and its metrics for success are pitifully low. Nevermind, just be Shiny Happy People!

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www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-figures-...

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@danwhite1972.bsky.social did I see you walking away from Brighton train station this morning? If it was, I really regret not saying ‘hello’. If it wasn’t…er, move along, nothing to see here…x

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