Spartacus Network

Spartacus is a network of sick & disabled people who use social media to highlight the impact of the UK Government's 'reforms' and cuts.

The Centre has supported the work of the Spartacus Network and hosts a number of their important publications in its library. For more information about The Spartacus Network please email Stef Benstead.

Follow the links below or on the right hand side to read the individual reports.


Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independent Payments (PIP):

Responsible Reform

Together We Shout

Emergency Stop

Briefing on PIP Mobility Consultation

Mobility for All

Employment Support Allowance (ESA) and the Work Capability Assessment (WCA):

The People's Review of the WCA

Briefing on ESA Regulations

The People's Review of the WCA - Further Evidence

Work Capability Assessment: deaths and suicides

Beyond the Barriers

Spartacus ESA Mythbuster

Spartacus Response to cuts in ESA

Bedroom tax:

Loaves and Fishes

Closing the Door on the Law

Social care:

Past Caring

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Paper: 24.02.14 Briefing on PIP Mobility Consultation The briefing sets out the concerns of disabled people and others in relation to the mobility component of Personal…
Paper: 24.02.14 Briefing on ESA Regulations This briefing was written to alert people to the impact on disabled benefits claimants of the Employment and Support…
Paper: 24.02.14 Closing the Door on the Law A report on the implications for chronically sick and disabled tenants of the Housing Benefit (Amendment)…
Paper: 24.02.14 Emergency Stop A report on the hidden economic and social cost of welfare reform.
Paper: 24.02.14 Mobility for All This is a submission to the Department for Work and Pensions consultation on the 'moving around' activity of the…
Paper: 24.02.14 Loaves and Fishes A report on the inadequacy of Discretionary Housing Payments to mitigate the impact of the 'bedroom tax' on sick and…
Paper: 24.02.14 Past Caring This report is a response to Worcestershire County Council's proposal for a Maximum Expenditure Policy in relation to…
Paper: 24.02.14 Responsible Reform A 2012 report on the most relevant evidence available on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and the proposals to…
Paper: 24.02.14 Together We Shout The ‘We Are Spartacus’ Community Submission to the Government Consultation on Assessments for…
Paper: 24.02.14 The People's Review of WCA Further Evidence This report provides additional evidence to the first People's Review of the Work Capability Assessment.
Paper: 24.02.14 The People's Review of the Work Capability Assessment This report was written in response to the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) which assesses an individual’s…
Paper: 08.04.14 Beyond the Barriers A Spartacus Network report into Employment Support Allowance, the Work Programme and recommendations for a new…
Paper: 22.04.15 Work Capability Assessment: deaths and suicides This report from the Spartacus Network draws together accounts of death and suicide associated with the WCA.
Paper: 28.07.15 Spartacus Response to Cuts in ESA The Spartacus Network show how Government policies are unfair, unreasonable and in conflict with International…
Paper: 28.07.15 Spartacus ESA Mythbuster Members of Spartacus Network bust the dangerous myths and misinformation that has grown up around ESA.