Take Action To Oppose The Disability Benefits Cuts! – Disability Rights UK

Take Action To Oppose The Disability Benefits Cuts! – Sign The Petition, Write To Your MP

A new petition backed by Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) aims to unite opposition to the government’s “devastating” disability benefit cuts and reforms by calling for every one of the measures to be abandoned.

The petition has been endorsed by DPO Forum England, whose 40-plus members include GMCDP, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), Disability Rights UK, Inclusion London and the National Survivor User Network.

Unlike previous petitions, this Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) petition targets the whole Green Paper reform strategy.

The petition calls on the government to work with Disabled people to draw up a national disability strategy in line with the UK’s international disability rights treaty obligations.

It calls on the government to drop the green paper proposals “and instead begin a process of co-production with Disabled people’s representative organisations to create a whole government disability strategy”