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• Coalition should think again about cuts to disability benefits (17 January 2012)
• Government must listen to disabled people (12 January 2012)
• Welfare Reform Bill: Government must listen to disabled people now (11 January 2012)
• “Do they know it’s Christmas?” Disabled choir to deliver GIANT Gerald Scarfe Christmas card from over 20,000 to Government Grinches - (7 December 2011)
• Disabled care home residents to keep mobility component: but who will lose out? - (1 December 2011)
• Mobility support retained for 78,000 disabled people? - (29 November 2011)
• Independent review ‘final nail in coffin’ for Government plans to axe support for disabled care home residents - (3 November 2011)
• Work programme affected by WCA backlog - (1 November 2011)
• Disabled people face new barrier to accessing support after ‘lack of transparency’ in DWP changes - (28 October 2011)
• Leading disabled people’s charities vote to form ‘Disability Rights UK’ - (24 October 2011)
• disabled people’s ‘hardest hit’ protests across country - ( 22nd October 2011)
• guardian podcast: disability benefit cuts - DA Director of Policy debates DLA cuts with Taxpayer’s’ Alliance and Guardian ahead of Hardest Hit events tomorrow. Link to podcast. (21 October 2011)
• media report slams ‘vitriolic’ and ‘deeply offensive’ reporting of disability - University of Glasgow and Inclusion London report - ‘Bad News for Disabled People’. (19 October 2011)
• da tackles sunday mail inaccuracy/potential discrimination - Disability Alliance is very concerned that a leading national newspaper has used misleading and inaccurate figures on what, for many disabled people and their families, is essential support. (11 October 2011)
• the work capability assessment and disabled people - This ‘Eye on Wales’ programme, produced by  BBC Cymru Wales is an expose of Work Capability Assessment (WCA) problems for disabled people and features Neil Coyle, Disability Alliance Director of Policy. (10 October 2011)
• disability minister ‘no-show’ at inquiry into care home mobility cuts - The DWP Minister for Disabled People has pulled out of today’s evidence session before the independent inquiry into how disabled people receive mobility support in residential care homes. (10 October 2011)
• dwp reveals disabled workers hardest hit by time-limiting welfare - (6 October 2011.)
• terminally ill told benefit may be stopped in april - Terminally ill people who have accessed c-ESA since April 2011 may lose all out of work help in just six months as a result of time limiting of this benefit (20 September 2011).
• employing disabled people: report highlights ‘little known’ access to work - Disability Alliance welcomes the SPRU research report for DWP focused on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and employing disabled people (20 September 2011).
• lib dems vote to stop government plans to time-limit support for disabled people - On Saturday 17th September, delegates at the Liberal Democrat party conference voted in favour of a motion criticising the Government’s approach to some disability benefit cuts (19 September 2011).
• government accused of limiting welfare reform bill scrutiny in lords - Government is seeking to hear Welfare Reform Bill committee stages in the Moses Room of the upper House and not the full chamber (14 September 2011).
• new survey says government policy ‘penalising disabled people’ - Papworth Trust survey into Government plans to cut Disability Living Allowance.(31 August 2011).
• making ‘welfare to work’ work for disabled people - The Work and Pensions Select Committee report on WCA (26 July 2011).
• charities launch independent review of government dla care home cuts due to dwp secrecy - The Low Review (18 July 2011).
• skill finds new home at disability alliance (11 July 2011) - press release
• dilnot commission’s report to lead to real reform of social care funding - (4 July 2011)
• disabled people told ‘work for less’ by mp - DA response (17 June 2011)
• da cited in caring debate - Link to Hansard (17 June 2011)
• sayce review - (9 June 2011)
• how to solve a problem like maria - Link to full Guardian transcript. (3 June 2011).
• bbc panorama abuse exposes further risks of government cuts and health reforms - Link to BBC website. (1 June 2011).
• da provides expert witness for human rights inquiry - (25 May 2011).
• thousands campaign to highlight disabled people ‘hardest hit’ by cuts agenda - (11 May 2011)

• jobcentres readied for suicides as cuts loom for disabled people - Link to Guardian article. (8 May 2011).

• govt benefit stereotyping to backfire massively - Link to BBC news item. (21 April 2011).
• disability charities win challenge over misleading benefit story - Link to letter and original article. (18 April 2011).
• da highlights retraction of support for disabled people seeking work - (15 April 2011).
• government admits jobcentres set targets to take away benefits - (8 April 2011).
• new legal alliance to help disabled people fight unfair cuts - (8 April 2011).
• government ‘full steam ahead’ with disability cuts - (7 April 2011).
• disabled people seek clarification on government dla mobility plans - 23 March 2011.
• welfare reform bill second reading: disability cuts loom nearer - (8 March 2011).
• welfare reform bill to penalise older disabled people? - (8 March 2011).
• mobility payment cuts would 'reduce independence of the disabled' - DA’s Director of Policy highlights concerns in the Observer over Government cuts to mobility support for disabled people. Guardian article (26 February 2011).
• welfare reform bill: tackling or generating disability poverty? - (17 February 2011).
• guardian covers risks of dla cuts - (14 February 2011).
• banks still contributing less than disabled people - (9 February 2011).
• disabled people fear cuts will make life ‘not worth living’ - Posted 3 February 2011.
• disability benefit cuts will force people out of work - DLA reform [Source] Community Care. Posted 14 January 2011.
• government starts consultation to cut access to dla - The replacement of DLA by the ‘Personal Independence Payment’. Posted 6 December 2010.
• da concerns on esa cuts - Time limiting of contributory ESA. Posted 2 December 2010.
• the work capability assessment: unfit for work - Independent review of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) by Professor Harrington. Posted 23 November 2010.
• welfare reform risk penalising disabled people - White paper on Universal Credit. Posted 11 November 2010.
• spending review risks increasing disability poverty - Posted 20 October 2010.
• creating a powerful voice for people with lived experience of disability and health conditions - The proposed unification of DA, RADAR and NCIL. Posted 13 September 2010.
• chancellor risks condemning disabled people to poverty with proposed benefit raid - Reform of DLA. Posted 12 September 2010.
• da announces the departure of its ceo - Posted 10 September 2010.
• disability alliance supports legal challenge to 'regressive' budget - The Emergency Budget. Posted 25 August 2010
• radar and disability alliance joint statement on direct payments - Posted 17 August 2010
• disabled people forced to pay for banking crisis - Posted 24 June 2010.
• disabled targeted by work and pensions secretary iain duncan smith - Posted 11 June 2010
• triple-jeopardy in new government’s welfare reform proposals puts disabled people at greater risk of poverty - Posted 27 May 2010
• government care reform plans: disability benefits off the agenda and care to be 'free at point of delivery' - Posted 15 April 2010
• welfare: can the tories save billions in benefits? – Interview with Neil Coyle, Director of Policy on BBC website (9 April 2010)
• national care service to join the welfare dots - Care Reform White Paper. Posted 30 March 2010
• 'tackling disability poverty' manifesto launched to coincide with pre-budget report - Posted 9 December 2009
• well fair reform? tackling disability poverty in a changing welfare state - Disability Alliance Conference. Posted 19 November 2009.
• dla breakthrough in care reform plans good news - but older disabled people left facing an uncertain future - Posted 22 October 2009
• disability alliance concerned disabled ib claimants 'cast adrift' - IB migration and the proposed new medical test. Posted 14 October 2009
• shaping the future of care together - Posted 14 July 2009
• "it's time to get fair" - mps to sign poverty pledge - Posted 26 June 2009
• disabled targeted by work and pensions secretary iain duncan smith - Comment by Neil Coyle, Director of Policy on Daily Mirror website (11 June 2010)
• cabinet reshuffle - Posted 9 June 2009
• helping disabled people into work – will esa work? - Posted 27 October 2008
• tackle uk poverty, political parties told - the Get Fair campaign
• welfare reform green paper – Posted 21 July 2008
• it's not about the pennies, it's about the principle - Press release about employment and support allowance rate - Posted 28 March 2008.
• government dishonest in looking to reduce claimant numbers with harder test - Our comment on the March 2008 Budget announcement - Posted 13 March 2008
• government proposals for ib reform – a missed opportunity - Disability Benefits Consortium press release on the welfare reform green paper. Posted 24 January 2006.

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