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Eileen Chubb speaks out — CQC role in poor care

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Watch Eileen’s fantastic interview where she criticises the Care Quality Commission’s involvement in poor care and betrayal of whistleblowers who go to the CQC to expose neglect and abuse.  She explains that due to privatisation, if your only demand is more money for social care, it will go to profiteer companies, not to improve care. More … Read more

“Suffer the little children and their mothers” — Legal Action for Women

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Read Legal Action for Women’s dossier of mothers’ experiences of Social Services and the family courts.  We co-wrote the chapter on disability discrimination against mothers and children, chapter 10: LAW Dossier 18Jan17 final WinVisible is part of the “Support Not Separation” coalition which was launched in Parliament on 11 July, click here for more info and to … Read more

Benefit sanctions: evidence to Public Accounts Committee of MPs

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Summary of our submission to the Public Accounts Committee in 2016 Benefit sanctions and threat of sanction are brutal, have killed people and must be ended. Women, including mothers, and families of colour, are the hardest hit by benefit cuts including the increase in sanctions. It is particularly cruel to sanction, or impose conditions that … Read more

Lawrence Bond’s inquest

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With friends of Lawrence Bond at his inquest on 16 June 2017. Being found fit for work was kept out of the inquest, which lasted only half an hour. Anne Marie O’Sullivan and her mother Eileen, also bereaved, Unite Community Camden, members of Camden Momentum and other concerned people attended with WinVisible. Read more: Disability … Read more

PIP assessment from paper evidence, exemption from interview

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People are told that everyone has to have a face-to-face interview for PIP.  This is not true.  Official DWP guidance sets out exemption from the interview, where there is enough evidence on paper to establish your daily living needs and mobility needs, and/or where the face-to-face interview is likely to be stressful to you.  (The … Read more

Oppose Camden care charges increase

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http://camdennewjournal.com/article/its-shameful-that-a-labour-council-is-ready-to-make-vulnerable-people-pay-more-for-care-rather-than-pressure-the-government LETTERS   It’s shameful that a Labour council is ready to make vulnerable people pay more for care rather than pressure the government 23 March, 2017 • DISABLED women are contacting us, desperately worried about council bills for home care and support, and the daily help they need but can’t afford to pay for … Read more