Claire Morgan 02/09/2024 News

Monday 2 September 2024

2.30 – 3.50pm

Grimond Room, Portcullis House, 1 Victoria Embankment, London SW1A 2JR

Chair: Cherylee Houston, activist and actor (Coronation Street)

This meeting has been called by the UK Coalition of Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations* to explore how we can learn lessons from deaths and suicides linked to disability benefit cuts and build a social security system for the future with adequate safeguards and capable of providing a genuine safety net for all.

Speakers will include disabled benefit claimants, family members of benefit death victims, representatives from Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations and the National President of PCS union which represents the workers who will be expected to implement the further cuts that are planned.

There will be a briefing available summarising proposed changes and cuts to disability benefits, their likely impact and numbers who will be affected.

We have the meeting room from 2 – 4pm to allow for networking and adequate time to enter and leave the room.

*UK Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations Convention on the Rights of Disabled People Monitoring Coalition. Members include Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), Disability Rights UK, Liberation, TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee, Inclusion London, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Inclusion Scotland, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability Wales, All Wales People First and DPAC Northern Ireland. We work in partnership with trade unions including CWU, Equity, NEU, NUJ, PCS, UCU, Unite, and Unite Community.