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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 2d

Disabled people have warned for years that welfare reform pushes us deeper into poverty and exclusion.

Now the UN has called out the UK again. It's time for rights, dignity, and justice at home.

We write with @justfairuk.bsky.social in the Big Issue

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations

United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.

www.bigissue.com

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 5d

💼 We’re hiring! Part-time Operational Manager at GMCDP.
Join us to keep our operations running smoothly & support disabled people’s rights.
📍 Remote (flexible hours)
💰 £21,600 pro rata (£36k FTE)
⏳ Apply by 27 Oct
🔗 gmcdp.com/jobs
#GMCDP #Hiring #DisabilityRights #Operations

Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 14d

Benefit Tips Social!
Wednesday, October 15・6:00pm
Online and In Person at Proud Trust
Includes Pizza and creative social session!
Book Now
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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 20d

With support from The National Archives, we’re also recruiting an Archive Catalogue Project Worker (staff).
All posts run until April 2027.
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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 20d

We’re recruiting for 4 roles on our Disabled People’s Archive 🎉
Thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund (made possible by National Lottery players) we’re looking for an Archive Project Assistant (staff), plus freelance Oral Historian & Evaluator. (1/2)

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 14

Don't fight the DWP alone, do it with friends!
Benefits Tips Social
Wed July 16・6:00pm
The Proud Trust
49-51 Sidney St M1 7HB
Join us for our hybrid Benefits Tips Social - an evening of disability-related Benefits tips and peer support.
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Benefits Tips Social

Join us for our hybrid Benefits Tips Social - an evening of disability-related Benefits tips and peer support.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 8

· the extension of financial surveillance and policing powers in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill.

The Committee will examine the responses and all credible information during its thirty-third session, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 11 to 26 August 2025.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 8

· the lack of a limited scrutiny because of its designation as a money bill.
· public statements by politicians and authorities portraying disabled people as fraudulent or burdens on society including debates around the Terminally Ill Adults Bill.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 8

The committee seeks answers on:
· the lack of full impact assessments.
· the impact on women, younger people, and global majority people.
· the risk of increasing poverty rate.
· the inadequacy of the public consultation.
· the lack of involvement of deaf and disabled people’s organisations.

tbinternet.ohchr.org

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 8

Even after concessions and the dropping of Clause 5 our concerns remain. Please note the UN has been given a timeframe for a response which conflicts with Government plans to designate this a money bill, meaning it should not be designated as such.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨

The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in disabled people's human rights.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 8

Tell your MP to vote against the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill, it will put 50,000 disabled people into poverty.
Also ask them to support these Amendments:

Amendments 14 & 15 by Neil Duncan-Jordan MP - These crucial amendments would remove the dangerous UC cuts from the bill, leaving the bill as an uprating of UC.

Amendment 2(a) by Richard Burgon MP - This would eliminate the punitive change to UC Health, which proposes a lower rate for all but those in the new serious conditions criteria group.

Amendment NC10 by Nadia Whittome MP - This would ensure that there is a human rights analysis of the bill, which has been completely absent thus far.

Amendment NC11 by Dr Marie Tidball MP - which would put a 12-month timeline on the ‘Timms Review’ and make it accountable to MPs by requiring a vote for any of its recommendations to be implemented.

Amendment NC8 by John McDonnell - which prevents any proposal from the Timms review adversely affecting anyone’s eligibility for PIP.

Amendment by Debbie Abrahams (19) - which changes the date on which the universal credit cuts start, from April 2026 to November 2026.

Amendment NC4 by Stella Creasy - which calls for a duty to have due regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People in exercising any power under this Act.

Amendment by Kirsty Blackman (33) - which removes the requirement that, for the severe conditions criteria, a diagnosis must have been made by a health professional providing NHS services.

Amendment by Graeme Downie (17) - which allows for the severe conditions criteria to apply to claimants who have fluctuating conditions, such as Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 4

Deadline to apply is rapidly approaching, Monday 7th July!

Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Apr 14

GM Disabled People’s Panel launches Feeling Good! Small grants up to £5,000 to support the Mental Wellbeing of Disabled People.
Read our Report: gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/gm-mental-we...
Deadline to apply- Mon 7th July.
tinyurl.com/MHWGDP25

Poster for the grants with sunbeams and drawings of a group of diverse disabled people in a city park with a rainbow hot air ballon in the sky.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Universal Credit and PIP Bill and Green Paper are the wrong policy approach and harmful. The ‘concessions’ do not alter this. We ask MP’s to vote the bill down on Tuesday.
Please continue to seek ways to talk to MP’s and their staff to give them this message.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 23

Human Rights Watch: UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities -
Proposed Benefit Cuts Will Worsen Poverty and Undermine Rights

UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities

While the UK government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s r...

www.hrw.org

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LGBT Foundation @lgbtfdn.bsky.social · Jun 3

Refuse to be invisible! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Now is the time to make our voices heard, sharing our experiences in the EHRC Consultation which affects LGBTQ+ people.

We've created a handy guide to help plan your response, get started now and share this post.

www.lgbt.foundation/EHRC

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 20

We have also been through two UN examinations that have found the UK is committing continued grave and systemic human rights abuses of disabled people. Until we can rely on our needs and Rights being met to thrive in society, the risk from this Bill of coerced euthanasia is too great to accept.

Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 20

As Covid showed us, medical professionals have a low level of understanding of the realities of disabled people’s lives and we were disproportionately the greatest number of dead from the pandemic.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 20

With ongoing austerity, our Social Care, Social Security, and Healthcare systems are in perpetual crisis with unmet need increasing. Disabled People are not getting the support they need to live.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 20

GM Disabled People’s Panel is comprised of 16 organisations led by disabled people, we have a breadth of views across our organisations on Assisted Dying. However on the specific matter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill we believe now is the wrong time to be supporting such legislation

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 20

The Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel (GMDPP) statement on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill:
gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/2024/11/27/g...

The GM Disabled People’s Panel is comprised of 16 organisations led by disabled people, we have a breadth of views across our organisations on Assisted Dying. However on the specific matter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill we believe now is the wrong time to be supporting such legislation. With ongoing austerity, our Social Care, Social Security, and Healthcare systems are in perpetual crisis with unmet need increasing. Disabled People are not getting the support they need to live. As Covid showed us, medical professionals have a low level of understanding of the realities of disabled people’s lives and we were disproportionately the greatest number of dead from the pandemic. We have also been through two United Nations examinations that have found the UK is committing continued grave and systemic human rights abuses of disabled people. Until we can rely on our needs and Rights being met to thrive in society, the risk from this Bill of coerced euthanasia is too great to accept.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 18

First reading today after Urgent Questions And Statements at 12:30 commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/955...

PRESENTATION OF BILLS
No debate (Standing Order No. 57) Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment
Secretary Liz Kendall Bill to make provision to alter the rates...

Order Paper for 18 June 2025

commonsbusiness.parliament.uk

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 17

There's still time to apply for our CEO vacancy. It's part time and flexible. gmcdp.com/jobs

Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · May 30

Are you a disabled leader committed to disability rights and the Social Model of Disability?

Do you believe in the power of grassroots activism, user-led change and inclusive leadership?

Could you be our new CEO?

gmcdp.com/jobs

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#NonprofitJobs
#GreaterManchesterJobs
#UKJobs

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Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social · Jun 11

Save The Date! We will be holding the first GM Disability Pride March on Saturday 5th July in Central Manchester, route will be announced soon.
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Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts

We are disabled people in Greater Manchester and surrounding areas fighting for our rights.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jun 6

Need help and peer support with your Social Security/DWP? Come along to Benefit Tips Social
Thurs 12th June
6-9pm at Proud Place or online, register here
gmcdp.com/civicrm/even...

Location of Proud Place
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Two yellow speech bubbles on white backdrop, in the bubbles are GMCDP cogs.

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