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The government has sparked fury after appointing a US company with a lengthy record of discrimination, incompetence and alleged fraud to take over delivery of its controversial “fitness for work” tests from the much-criticised Atos Healthcare. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed […]
A national disabled people’s organisation has defended its decision to agree to work with the controversial US company handed a government contract to assess disabled people’s “fitness for work”. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is set to provide disability equality training […]
The government has resorted to asking employers to move Deaf members of staff to jobs that require less use of interpreters, according to campaigners protesting about the coalition’s changes and cuts to the troubled Access to Work (AtW) scheme. Members of […]
Another leading Deaf figure has come forward to describe the damage the government’s botched Access to Work (AtW) changes have caused to his career. Last week, Jenny Sealey, chief executive and artistic director of Graeae, described how her AtW support had […]
The minister for disabled people has apologised to MPs for the government’s botched reforms to a vital employment support programme for disabled people. Mark Harper, the Conservative minister for disabled people, was told by MPs that the changes to Access to […]
A leading Deaf theatre figure has accused the minister for disabled people of being “full of hot air” and ignorant about the government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme. Jenny Sealey, who is chief executive and artistic director of Graeae, and was […]
Both the Conservative party and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have denied that ministers are considering sharp cuts to the main out-of-work disability benefit. The BBC said it had seen documents that showed ministers were considering “drastically cutting” payments […]
A disabled woman left “financially and socially isolated” after waiting more than six months for her claim for the new disability benefit to be processed is taking legal action against the government. Ms C, from Kent, claims she is struggling to […]
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been caught lying twice in a television interview about the impact of his reforms on disabled people, even managing to contradict his own special adviser. Iain Duncan Smith has been a focus of […]
A company with a “chilling” record of incompetence, discrimination and alleged fraud is in prime position to take over the new “fitness for work” contract from Atos Healthcare, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) […]