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Sarah Newton speaking in the House of Commons

August 9, 2018 0

DWP refuses to pay £125 to discover number of disabled people in full-time jobs

Ministers are refusing to commission work that would cost just £125 and would show how many disabled people are in full-time paid employment, and how that number has changed under successive Tory-led governments. Ministers, including the current work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, have repeatedly boasted of how their policies have led to an

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Sarah Newton giving evidence to the committee as Esther McVey watches on beside her

July 12, 2018 0

Minister denies lying to MPs over Disability Confident history

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The minister for disabled people has denied lying to an influential committee of MPs about the government’s much-criticised disability employment scheme. Sarah Newton’s claims about Disability Confident were exposed yesterday (Wednesday) just as her boss, work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, was herself fighting off a Commons motion that would have censured her for

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David Cameron launching Disability Confident

July 12, 2018 0

Disability Confident employers promise less than one job each on average

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Nearly 7,000 employers that signed up to the government’s much-criticised Disability Confident jobs scheme have promised to provide just 4,500 new jobs for disabled people between them, less than one per employer. The figures emerged as the minister for disabled people, Sarah Newton, and work and pensions secretary Esther McVey were giving evidence to

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Declan McSweeney holding a notebook and pen, talking to Brian Cowen

July 5, 2018 0

Call for media action after news agency’s shorthand ‘discrimination’

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A disabled journalist is calling for action to address widespread discrimination in the media industry after a news agency told him he had not been interviewed for a job because he did not have a qualification in shorthand. Declan McSweeney has tried several times to apply for posts with Mercury Press in Liverpool –

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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’

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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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