David Gillon

Employment

Head and shoulders of Justin Tomlinson giving evidence to a parliamentary committee

July 28, 2016

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Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’

Disabled campaigners have given mixed reviews to a new version of the government’s Disability Confident employment scheme, with one saying he was “genuinely shocked” by how weak it was. Disability Confident – which has urged employers to “see the ability, not the disability” – has attracted criticism since its launch three years ago for

Employment

July 21, 2016

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Drop in Access to Work numbers shows DWP ‘is strangling the scheme’

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The government is facing calls for a “fundamental rethink” of its approach to Access to Work (AtW), after new figures showed the number of disabled people receiving support through the employment scheme fell last year. At its peak, in 2009-10, under the last Labour government, AtW was supporting more than 37,000 disabled people a

Employment

David Cameron launching Disability Confident

June 2, 2016

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Disability Confident attracts just 40 mainstream private sector partners… in three years

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The government has signed up only about 40 mainstream private sector employers to its flagship Disability Confident employment scheme in the three years since it was launched by the prime minister, new figures reveal. An analysis by Disability News Service (DNS) shows that – with the exception of 15 law firms, and recruitment, welfare-to-work

Arts, Culture and Sport

February 25, 2016

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Anger over Twitter’s ‘can’t be bothered’ attitude to disablist abuse

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Campaigners have cast doubt on Twitter’s commitment to protecting disabled people from vile disablist abuse on its social media platform. They spoke out after the media giant launched its new Twitter Trust and Safety Council, which it claimed would help “ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter”. The council is made up

Employment

February 4, 2016

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Discrimination against disabled staff shoots up at DWP, the home of ‘Disability Confident’

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The number of disabled civil servants who have faced discrimination within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has risen by nearly a quarter in just a year, according to “shocking” and “very worrying” new figures. More than 1, 400 disabled civil servants who took part in the survey for the Cabinet Office said

Politics

September 25, 2015

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DWP exposes IDS ‘lies’ about success of Disability Confident campaign

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Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of lying to his own party conference about the success of his campaign to encourage employers to be more “disability confident”. Duncan Smith (pictured) told last year’s conference in Birmingham that more than 1, 000 employers had “signed up” to the Disability Confident campaign, which

Benefits and Poverty

July 3, 2015

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Ministers ‘considering scrapping WRAG top-up’

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Ministers are considering plans to slash benefit payments to hundreds of thousands of disabled people, by scrapping a key part of the main out-of-work disability benefit, employment and support allowance (ESA), according to the BBC. The BBC reports that a leaked Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) document describes ESA as a “passive” benefit

Browsing: David Gillon

Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’

Drop in Access to Work numbers shows DWP ‘is strangling the scheme’

Disability Confident attracts just 40 mainstream private sector partners… in three years

Anger over Twitter’s ‘can’t be bothered’ attitude to disablist abuse

Discrimination against disabled staff shoots up at DWP, the home of ‘Disability Confident’

DWP exposes IDS ‘lies’ about success of Disability Confident campaign

Ministers ‘considering scrapping WRAG top-up’