NEW: £250m+ has been taken as profit over 3yrs, by private companies running social care services in 3 English regions. By: ⛴️ Private equity firms 🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

17,000 employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants have, so far, had their legacy benefits claim ended after failing to migrate to universal credit (UC), according to official statistics released by the DWP. That figure is set to rise to over 26,00 by the time the process is complete.

”charity Care Rights UK believes one of the most common reasons people are forced out of their care homes is ‘revenge evictions’.Lauren Byrne..explains that this is where people are“threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint,as a sort of retaliation” www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Published today…. www.gov.uk/government/s...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Really interesting piece linking immigration, disability and entitlement to welfare support

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Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The absolute tumbleweed from the media & gov shows just how much they want to bury how much disabled people fought and still fight for our rights.

The Care Quality Commission said in its annual...report that the health and social care system remained 'fragmented and under severe strain'. 'Disabled people had told them how they had been 'left to sit or lie in soiled or wet clothing for hours while waiting for their care worker to arrive'.

Losing a loved one is hard. Coping with grief is harder for some than others. In a compassionate society, a grieving person with mental health struggles who hasn’t paid a household bill would be helped, not convicted of a crime www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

This needs shouting from the rooftops "the real avoidance isn’t on the part of those struggling to survive. It’s governmental: the avoidance of the real, the avoidance of the structural, and—most crucially—the cynical avoidance of justice."

Who’d have thought? news.sky.com/story/anti-b...

❗ Families are having to choose between putting the heating on or food on the table. Parents are skipping meals. People are terrified of rising bills. It's so wrong. We desperately need a social security system that protects us when we need it most.

Who could have predicted that mainstream media and politicians mainstreaming far-right talking points and symbols would embolden fascists (except all the research available on the matter)? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

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Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

I’m going to say this really fucking clearly: We have a right to an adequate social security system, that is not abusive or causes worsening health, impairments, and death. If all you focus on is work, I understand you are disablist. Even if you don’t. deathsbywelfare.org

Cutting disability support doesn’t help disabled people into work. Disabled people need accessible jobs and compassionate support 💚

Millions of Americans are going to go hungry without SNAP (aka food stamps. What was Trump doing while this happened? Literally partying with billionaires of course www.thecanary.co/global/world...

NHS dentists crisis sees surge in GoFundMe appeals from desperate people in pain The British Dental Association brands it ‘Victorian’ that Brits having to beg for charity to pay for essential dentistry which should be available on the NHS www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

A woman who had half her lung removed has called for the Covid vaccine to be given the same priority as the flu jab after she caught the virus three times in the months since she was dropped from the eligibility list. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

A Labour-led committee of MPs has called the government’s universal credit cuts act “discriminatory” and warned that it will push disabled people into poverty, despite every one of its Labour members voting for the legislation in July. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/committee-ca...

A culture of institutional disability discrimination within the Metropolitan police is exposed today by the former head of its disabled staff association. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/former-detec...

The horrible irony in Society is that it's usually those with the least who do the most to help others, and support the most vulnerable. People surviving relies on charity, peer support, and mutual fundraising etc... which mostly comes from other vulnerable people.

In the last 5 years... 🔥 Gas has risen by 67% 🥫 Food by 37% ⚡ Electric by 51% But average earnings have risen by JUST 34%.

Here is Ed Davey's voting record, for those who are interested, he has constantly voted for reducing benefit spending. www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10155/edw...

History teaches us clearly: rights can be lost quickly if we don't defend them. Act now: amn.st/633227EWl4

It’s almost as though politicians pushing the work cure narrative are lying to us.… www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

This is so shocking, sad and unjust!

Govt have been briefing this rubbish to right wing rags for the last few days. Forcing people into work who aren’t well enough to work will not cure people or make them better, nor make someone any less depressed or anxious. This is performative cruelty, punishing people for being unwell.

Social protection is a human right. In a new report, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights @deschuttero.bsky.social warns that weakening social protection fuels the rise of far-right populism. Read more: