A Public Meeting is being held at Portobello Town Hall on Friday 7 September 2012 at 7.30pm to consider the effects of The Welfare Reform Act. The meeting is open to all. A group of Edinburgh residents and politicians are campaigning against the UK government cuts and benefit reassessments which could lead to 3.5 million disabled people losing over £9.2 billion in benefits.
Sasha Callaghan of Disability History, who will speak at the meeting, commented: ‘The Welfare Reform Act is going to take us back to the days of the Poor Law. Once again it is a crime to be on a low income and the very poorest are being expected to pay for the mistakes of a failed banking system.’
The meeting is being organised by East Edinburgh Save Our Services, a non-affiliated local pro-democracy group, in response to public concern about the implications of the Act.
Lorna Frost
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  1. Since 2008 Atos Healthcare on behalf of the government has been assessing and discounting the disabled at a rate of over 3,000 per day and 800,000 per year. At no time did the DWP, Government or Atos put in a feedback system to monitor or account for the disabled. AFTER ATOS sets out to do that. We answer the question. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

    AFTER ATOS was set up by a lone disabled woman with severe profound disabilities in February 2011 as she was determined to count and account for the disabled as the government refused to do so.

    From this simple act of trying to get the feedback and account for the disabled the simple act of accounting for our own has been hacked, attacked and stopped and blocked.

    Even last year. writing to Scotish Parliament and Welsh Assembly AFTER ATOS was told that they could not account or count or monitor their own unless Westminster allowed it. I had to write and ask for permission from Westminster and DWP to be able to ask Scottish and Welsh parliaments to help them account for their own. It was refused. Scottish Parliament said “Sorry.” “We cannot help you then.” Missing the point that a severe disabled woman at the bottom of England wanted to try and help everyone and Scotland and Wales to account for their own.

    Help account for your own. Get in touch, volunteer to outreach and stand on the Atos centre doors and make sure no one goes in alone, unaccompanied and unaccounted for and unsupported when they come out.

    Going for TUC and unions funding next week, until then still unsupported and unfunded.

    Get in touch
    AFTER ATOS
    Counting the Disabled Back In – Because People Matter

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