Here are all the articles, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts (and more) that we’ve shared in our weekly bulletins this month. The main focus of this section in our bulletin is to share new, first person pieces written or made by people within and beyond our membership who have lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma, or distress, as well as relevant articles about news and policy in mental health from sources such as Disability News Service.
We’ll be posting this roundup at the end of each month as a way to further bring together, amplify and also archive current, lived experience-focussed voices and perspectives in mental health.
‘Access to Work showed me a working life was still possible… now Keir Starmer has put that at risk’
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Celebrating the launch of the Measuring Success in Co-production: Learning by Doing programme reports
Blog by and via Co-Production Collective.
May 2025 articles & blogs roundup
Blog by and via NSUN.
Disability benefit cuts are a political choice — and a dangerous one
Blog by Mikey Erhardt via politics.co.uk.
‘Overwhelming response’ to letter to PM from high-profile disabled figures on Labour’s ‘catastrophic’ cuts
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
The DWP has claimed it has ‘saved £1 billion’ – but in reality, it hasn’t at all
Article by Steve Topple via Canary.
We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
A totally sensible letter to you, from a teenager under section
An anonymous letter via Asylum Magazine.
‘Labour has made me feel like a scrounger’: disabled people urge welfare cuts rethink
Article by Jem Bartholomew via the Guardian.
A Place of Safety: identifying good practice in mental health emergencies
A blog by Alison Faulkner via NSUN.
There can be no disability justice without menstrual justice: open letter
A letter by Hat Porter via Irise International Youth Board and co-signed by multiple organisations.
Ask your MP to vote against dangerous cuts to disability benefits
A tool by and via Z2K.
‘We will not give a single inch,’ disabled activists vow, as Kendall publishes disability cuts bill
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Tool to track your hospital’s ties with Palantir
Tool by and via Health Workers for a Free Palestine (UK).
Still criminalising distress: police involvement in care has not been “eradicated”
Blog by Hil Aked via Medact.
If Labour cuts my PIP, I lose everything I have worked for
Article by Rachel Charlton-Dailey via the Independent.
Existing PIP claimants to be protected from cuts in disability benefits U-turn
Blog by Mithran Samuel via CommunityCare.