Employment

A white car parked in the centre of two parking bays

June 21, 2018 0

‘Discrimination’ by DWP’s IT company ‘exposed disabled employee to months of abuse’

A “Disability Confident” company owned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) subjected a disabled member of staff to repeated abuse from strangers after it refused for more than 15 months to make a simple alteration to his parking arrangements. It is now more than 15 months since wheelchair-user Jamie Shield reported to

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Eight women sit around a long wooden table

June 14, 2018 0

Disabled lawyers face widespread discrimination, say researchers

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Disabled people in the legal profession are facing widespread discrimination, with outdated working practices and a failure to provide them with the support they need, according to early results from a ground-breaking piece of research. The initial findings of the Legally Disabled? research project show that disabled people seeking jobs or working in the

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Esther McVey sitting at a desk, with subtitles showing the words: there are more women, black and minority ethnic and disabled people

May 17, 2018 0

Video catches McVey’s misleading claims about disability job stats

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Work and pensions secretary Esther McVey has been caught making misleading claims on social media about the number of disabled people in work. McVey had recorded a short video clip (pictured) welcoming this week’s new employment figures, and it was sent out on Tuesday by her department’s press office. In the clip she welcomes

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A female wheelchair-user holds a packet of Maltesers

May 10, 2018 0

Boards of biggest companies should appoint ‘disability champions’, says new report

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Every one of the country’s biggest companies should ensure they have a “disability champion” on their board by 2020, according to a new report co-authored by a leading disabled social entrepreneur. The report also calls on the boards of Britain’s biggest 350 businesses to include disability as a formal agenda item at least once

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Esther McVey giving evidence to the social security committee

April 26, 2018 0

DWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause ‘is proof charities cannot be trusted’

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The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent them criticising the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is proof that they cannot be trusted to speak up on behalf of disabled people, according to grassroots activists. Last week, Disability News Service (DNS) reported that – in exchange for lucrative government contracts

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April 26, 2018 0

Regulator chaired by former minister resists probe into DWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause

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A regulator chaired by a former Tory minister is refusing to investigate charities that have signed contracts that prevent them criticising the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its secretary of state Esther McVey. The Charities Commission – a non-ministerial government department – is chaired by Baroness Stowell, a former Tory communities and

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April 19, 2018 0

Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’

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Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new Work and Health Programme must promise to “pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” of work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, official documents suggest. The charities, and other organisations, must also promise never to do anything that harms the public’s confidence

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Robin Christopherson giving evidence in parliamennt, watched by another man

April 19, 2018 0

League table ‘would help government departments improve on assistive technology’

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The government should set up a league table of its departments so it can compare their performance in enabling the use of assistive technology by disabled civil servants, a committee of MPs has suggested. The Commons work and pensions select committee says in its Assistive Technology report that a league table would “incentivise” government

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April 12, 2018 0

Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

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Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme could be at risk of losing their jobs because the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to refuse to renew a three-year funding agreement. The funding was awarded to Remploy in 2015 for its Interwork scheme, which was set up in

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David Buxton, signing, and Terry Riley give evidence to a House of Lords committee

March 22, 2018 0

Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’

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The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work (AtW) payments does not go far enough, and its “discriminatory” cap must be scrapped completely, according to disabled campaigners. They spoke out after a partial U-turn on the AtW cap by work and pensions secretary Esther McVey. The cap was first introduced in

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