Isabella McRae
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Senior reporter @BigIssue covering social justice | [email protected] 🗞
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https://www.bigissue.com/author/isabella-mcrae/ 28-10-2018 09:45:03
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The DWP is launching a consultation which it claims will “make our disability benefit system fit for the future”. ✅
But campaigners have described the proposed changes as a “reckless assault” on disabled people. 🚫
Isabella McRae reports. 👇
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Great Big Issue article by Sumi Rabindrakumar: PM's disability speech last week was 'heavy on rhetoric, light on credible solutions [to] help people excluded from work or address unacceptably high numbers of disabled & sick people facing hunger and hardship.' bigissue.com/opinion/dwp-di…
NEW: A disability activist has been granted permission to take the DWP to court over its plans to tighten a key disability benefit test
Ellen Clifford is bringing a judicial review of the consultation into changes to the WCA
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“I have never been so ashamed to call myself a civil servant. After years of crackpot Tory ideas, I can’t take it anymore. Criminalising homelessness has been the straw that has broken the camel’s back.”
Really strong reporting from Liam Geraghty here
💬 'We are living in a true crisis but I hope for a way out'
Isabella McRae highlights the horrific situation in #Gaza and the urgent need for a #Palestinian Family Visa Scheme.
So pleased the petition hit 100k! Gaza Families Reunited
The Government now has a DUTY to act. 🚨
I was privileged to visit Amy's Place, a sanctuary for young women who have left treatment for addiction, set up by Amy Winehouse's family AmyWinehouseFdation
Amy's step-mum Jane Winehouse told me 'it is nothing other than fantastic'
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