National Survivor User Network
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Network of user-led groups and people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. Shifting power and resource in mental health.
To mark our resistance to what we believe is a misallocation of funds and attention on World Mental Health Day, we have chosen to spotlight areas of work that aim to genuinely support those living in the silences between annual awareness days. nsun.org.uk/when-world-men…
Government quietly releases multiple disability research reports on the same day… but eight days too late for MPs who voted for cuts #UniversalCredit #UniversalCreditBill #DWP disabilitynewsservice.com/government-qui…
Ministers have published research they have been sitting on for more than a year showing how the proportion of disabled people in financial difficulty doubled in 2 years, days after MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year cuts to out-of-work disability benefits. disabilitynewsservice.com/number-of-disa…
Join us on August 6th (6-8pm) for a Know Your Rights training. Led by Green and Black Cross, this training is ideal for folks who want to know more about understanding their rights when it comes to protest. nsun.org.uk/news/know-your…
It’s disappointing that the government failed to heed the concerns raised in the House of Lords last night about the Universal Credit Bill. We need a social security system that lifts disabled people out of poverty, rather than pushing them into it.
Timetable of proposed benefits changes benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/timetable…
The Government has introduced a bill that includes powers to spy on all of our bank accounts. It takes away our financial privacy like never before and does away with the presumption of innocence We must stop this - sign our petition today⤵️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop…
APPG on Disability is meeting to discuss the welfare system on: 📅 Monday, 21st July ⏰ 2-3pm We need as many Disabled people in the room to share your experiences and what needs to change! Email [email protected] for confirm your attendance!
LORDS REVIEW UC BILL ON TUESDAY Lords can't stop UC Bill BUT every speech in our support builds legal case and hopefully will encourage support for Baroness Bennett's fab 'motion to regret'. 📧 Please email the template or your version to speaking Lords: shorturl.at/VsJNE
Join NSUN and Green and Black Cross on August 6th, 6-8pm for a Know Your Rights training! The training will cover interacting with police and security, common offences used at protest and what to do if you are stop-and-searched or arrested. nsun.org.uk/news/know-your…
There are just two days until our July Network Meeting! We will be joined by Bristol Borderline Personality Disorder Collective to talk us through their history, work and navigating sustainability as a grassroots group. nsun.org.uk/news/introduci…
From Christian churches and courts of law to psychotherapy consulting rooms and social media platforms, Hazel McMichael interrogates the dynamics of confession within the lived experience space in our “Limitations of Lived Experience” blog series. nsun.org.uk/the-dynamics-o…
Join our July Network Meeting to hear about the roots and ethos of the Bristol Borderline Personality Disorder Collective. Jade and Maddie will join us to discuss their abolitionist, grassroots group from 4-5.30 on July 17th. nsun.org.uk/news/introduci…
ICYMI: NSUN member Yasmin grapples with the discomfort of monetising lived experience in an environment without safeguarding or aftercare, and calls for genuine systemic change in the lived experience space. nsun.org.uk/monetising-my-…
Read our full reaction to the Universal Credit Bill, including our commitments going forward, below. nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-resp…
🚨BREAKING: The UK govt has forced through its Bill to cut social security - rushing all 3 stages of scrutiny in a single day to avoid accountability. No amount of concessions can disguise this political choice for what it is: an assault on disabled people.
Thank you to @zarahsultana for saying the names of Errol Graham, Jodey Whiting and Stephen Smith, who died at the hands of DWP sanctions. 'Their deaths were not a tragic exception, but a political consequence. The human cost of decisions made in Parliament.' #BinUCBill