John Pring
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John Pring

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John Pring is the author of three books: Silent Victims, Longcare Survivors: The Biography of a Care Scandal, and The Department: How A Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence. He is a disabled journalist (he is autistic), and is the founder of Disability News Service, a news agency that, since 2009, has focused on stories that affect the lives of disabled people, such as discrimination, independent living, benefits, poverty and human rights. He is specialist advisor and co-editor of Museum of Austerity, an award-winning mixed reality installation produced by English Touring Theatre, the National Theatre's Immersive Storytelling Studio, and Trial & Error Studio. He is also co-creator of the Deaths by Welfare timeline, and was associate producer on an award-winning Dispatches documentary, The Truth About Disability Benefits. The Department, his book about the Department for Work and Pensions, and how its actions led to hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled benefit claimants, will be published by Pluto Press in August 2024.
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    • The Department

    • How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence
    • By: John Pring
    • Narrated by: Sam Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2025
    • Language: English
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