Good campaigning is all about good partnerships. It’s for this reason that we got together last week with 30 other charities, 60 cancer specialists as well as academics, welfare experts and patients. We sent a letter to the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith MP, raising our concerns around the Government’s plan to reform the benefits system.
The letter, which was covered by The Times on Wednesday…
I wanted to let you all know about some big developments in our ‘put the fair into welfare’ campaign in the last couple of weeks.
At the end of November the government published its long awaited response to Professor Malcolm Harrington’s review of the Work Capability Assessment. The review - which we made a submission to as part of our campaign - looked at the way in which the benefits claims of cancer patients…
Hello everyone. I just wanted to let you all know that our welfare reform campaign petition has gone live today! So please help us to ‘put the fair into welfare’ by signing up and spreading the word among your friends, family and colleagues. The more support we get the stronger our message to politicians will be!
The proposed shake-up of the benefits system in the Welfare Reform Bill could leave thousands…
Hi everyone,
I wanted to update you on our welfare reform campaign and thank you all for your efforts to help us in our work at the Liberal Democrat Party conference. As you may be aware the Liberal Democrat conference voted on whether their party should oppose the Government's plan to take away a person's Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) after just one year. If this is implemented those affected could…
