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DWP admits Coffey and Duncan Smith both snubbed Disability Confident

By John Pring on 8th October 2020 Category: Employment

DWP admits Coffey and Duncan Smith both snubbed Disability Confident
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has failed to sign up to her own much-criticised disability employment scheme, Disability Confident, her department has admitted. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has also admitted that Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who launched […]

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 silence over Coffey’s absence from list of Disability Confident backers

By John Pring on 12th March 2020 Category: Employment

DWP silence over Coffey’s absence from list of Disability Confident backers
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to say why its secretary of state does not appear to have signed up to her own flagship disability employment scheme. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last week that a DWP database […]

Tomlinson misleads Abrahams over cover-up as MPs debate DWP deaths cover-up

By John Pring on 4th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tomlinson misleads Abrahams over cover-up as MPs debate DWP deaths cover-up
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The minister for disabled people is today (Thursday) facing questions over why he misled a senior Labour MP about his department’s cover-up of links between its “fitness for work” test and the deaths of disabled people. The failure by Justin Tomlinson […]

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