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‘Sickening’ vaccine priority list ‘shows disabled people are disposable’

By John Pring on 12th November 2020 Category: Human Rights

‘Sickening’ vaccine priority list ‘shows disabled people are disposable’
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Furious disabled activists have questioned the “sickening” and “utterly bizarre” decision to put disabled people seen as extremely vulnerable to coronavirus far down the queue for a life-saving vaccine, when it eventually becomes available. They have begun to speak out after […]

Coffey shows ‘active contempt’ for rights over Disability Confident snub

By John Pring on 9th July 2020 Category: Uncategorised

Coffey shows ‘active contempt’ for rights over Disability Confident snub
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Work and pensions secretary Dr Therese Coffey has shown “active contempt for disability rights” by refusing to sign up to her own flagship disability employment scheme, information released by the government has confirmed. Disability News Service (DNS) has been trying since […]

DWP scraps plan to strengthen Disability Confident… after just four days

By John Pring on 7th November 2019 Category: Employment

DWP scraps plan to strengthen Disability Confident… after just four days
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A government plan to strengthen its discredited Disability Confident employment scheme, and force leading employers to report on how many disabled people they employ, has had to be scrapped just days after it was announced. Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey, […]

Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’

By John Pring on 28th July 2016 Category: Employment

Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’
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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 […]

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

By John Pring on 21st July 2016 Category: Employment

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 2nd June 2016 Category: Employment

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) […]

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

By John Pring on 25th February 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 4th February 2016 Category: Employment

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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 […]

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

By John Pring on 25th September 2015 Category: Politics

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 […]

Ministers ‘considering scrapping WRAG top-up’

By John Pring on 3rd July 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

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