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Are mental health conditions overdiagnosed in the UK? Two experts go head to head

Speaking on BBC One’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Wes Streeting, the UK health secretary, expressed concerns that some mental health conditions were overdiagnosed. The Conversation asked two experts to comment on Streeting’s claim. Is the health secretary right?

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Labour’s Plan to Cut Disability Benefits Sparks Outrage—Will the Most Vulnerable Pay the Price?

Many Scots were left horrified when the Tories waged war on disabled benefit claimants.

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Starmer told there is ‘nothing moral’ about his £5bn welfare cuts

Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott challenged Sir Keir Starmer over the reforms at Prime Minister’s Questions.

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Cut disability claimants don’t have ‘significant needs’, Labour minister suggests

A LABOUR minister has suggested that the people who will lose disability payments amid sweeping Labour cuts do not have “significant needs"…

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Anas Sarwar silent as Labour MSPs speak out against UK disability cuts

PRESSURE is piling on Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar as his MSPs call out the UK Government's cuts to PIP and Universal Credit ...

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Martin Lewis warns Labour £5bn benefits cuts are ‘fraught with challenges’

Labour’s reforms will see disability benefits scaled back for millions

The Independent UK

Shaken baby syndrome can cause permanent brain damage, long-term disabilities or death – a pediatrician examines the preventable tragedy

In the early 1990s when I was a young pediatrician, I was responsible for evaluating children with developmental and learning problems. Two unrelated boys, ages 7 and 9, were found to have IQs in the range of 60-70, which indicates a severe cognitive disability.

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‘What was the point?’ Starmer grilled on real-life impacts of disability benefits cuts

Sir Keir Starmer was asked "What is the point” of Labour if it cuts disability benefits during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, 19 March.

The Independent UK

Minister insists ‘most people’ see need for welfare reform in face of backlash

The Resolution Foundation said some people will feel a ‘really significant income loss’ as a result of the changes.

Evening Standard

Rising bill for benefits has wreaked ‘terrible human cost’, says Keir Starmer

PM defends welfare cuts amid disquiet in Labour over plan charities say will push more disabled people into poverty

The Guardian - UK

Starmer must drop ‘cruel’ Pip proposals or face ‘mother of all rebellions’, Labour MP says – UK politics live

Richard Burgon says PM’s failure to defend new Pip eligibility rules at PMQs shows why ‘cruel’ plans should be dropped

The Guardian - UK

Labour minister's disability cuts defence branded 'abhorrent' by own colleague

A LABOUR minister’s attempt to defend the UK Government’s swingeing cuts to disability benefits has been branded “abhorrent” by one of his…

The National (Scotland)

Former Labour MSP quits party after 35 years with furious attack on Keir Starmer

A FORMER Scottish Labour MSP has resigned from the party after 35 years following the UK Government’s swingeing cuts to disability benefits ...

The National (Scotland)

Wednesday briefing: The devastating toll of Labour’s disability welfare cuts

In today’s newsletter: what chance does a backbench rebellion have of shifting the government’s plans to cut benefits?

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Diane Abbott in PMQs showdown with Keir Starmer over 'morality' of benefit cuts

Diane Abbott accused the Government of balancing ‘the country's books on the back of the most vulnerable and poor in society’

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Millions Face £1,200 Benefit Cut as Rachel Reeves Pushes ‘Brutal’ Welfare Overhaul

Millions of disabled and long-term sick claimants could see their benefits slashed by as much as £1,200 a year as Rachel Reeves pushes ahead with major welfare cuts.

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What Labour’s welfare cuts mean for benefit claimants – and the other support available

Millions of people will be affected by the changes

The Guardian - UK

Liz Kendall struggles to sell ‘immoral and devastating’ disability benefits cut

Disability charities call foul as welfare secretary buries austerity-like news under earnest talk of reform

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Tanni Grey-Thompson among disability campaigners criticising ‘brutal’ benefit cuts

Paralympian says toxic rhetoric around welfare changes has stirred up hatred against disabled people in UK

Evening Standard

People with long-term health conditions welcome Government decision on payments

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall announced an overhaul of the welfare system and reform to disability benefits on Tuesday.

The National (Scotland)

Fears Labour's disability benefits cut to be 'really quite severe' for Scotland

The UK Government has come under fire for changes to the welfare system with Scotland’s Social Justice Secretary warning of the “devastating…

Evening Standard

What changes have been announced to the benefits system?

Some elements of the reforms have been welcomed and others criticised.

Evening Standard

Welfare reforms will be ‘devastating’ for disabled, Shirley-Anne Somerville says

The Scottish Social Justice Secretary spoke out after the UK Government set out a series of reforms to the welfare system.

The Guardian - UK

Tuppy Owens obituary

Activist who played a key role in changing attitudes to sexuality in the 1960s and 70s

The National (Scotland)

Analysis: Labour are cutting benefits in ways the Tories only dreamt of

LABOUR’S swingeing cuts to disability benefits are reckoned to be the biggest on record.

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