Employment

April 19, 2018 0

Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’

Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new Work and Health Programme must promise to “pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” of work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, official documents suggest. The charities, and other organisations, must also promise never to do anything that harms the public’s confidence

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Robin Christopherson giving evidence in parliamennt, watched by another man

April 19, 2018 0

League table ‘would help government departments improve on assistive technology’

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The government should set up a league table of its departments so it can compare their performance in enabling the use of assistive technology by disabled civil servants, a committee of MPs has suggested. The Commons work and pensions select committee says in its Assistive Technology report that a league table would “incentivise” government

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April 12, 2018 0

Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

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Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme could be at risk of losing their jobs because the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to refuse to renew a three-year funding agreement. The funding was awarded to Remploy in 2015 for its Interwork scheme, which was set up in

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David Buxton, signing, and Terry Riley give evidence to a House of Lords committee

March 22, 2018 0

Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’

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The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work (AtW) payments does not go far enough, and its “discriminatory” cap must be scrapped completely, according to disabled campaigners. They spoke out after a partial U-turn on the AtW cap by work and pensions secretary Esther McVey. The cap was first introduced in

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Philip Connolly speaking at a conference

March 1, 2018 0

Absence of stats ‘is killer blow to government’s disability employment pledge’

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The failure to provide up-to-date figures showing how many disabled people are in work is a “killer blow” to the government’s pledge to move one million more disabled people into work by 2027, say campaigners. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has failed to publish figures on how many disabled people were in employment

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Marsha de Cordova speaking in the House of Commons

March 1, 2018 0

Government ‘must do more on disability employment’, MPs hear

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The government must do more to offer incentives to businesses to take on disabled people as employees, and to tackle the barriers that prevent them finding jobs, according to cross-party MPs. MPs from Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the Conservative party all pushed the government to improve its policies. Disability Rights UK,

Employment

February 15, 2018 0

Deaf chief executive wins right to challenge Access to Work cap in court

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A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the government’s “discriminatory” cap on Access to Work (AtW) payments in the high court, in the latest legal challenge to the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) disability policy agenda. David Buxton, chief executive of Action on Disability in London, is one of many British Sign

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Jo-An Moran giving evidence, next to Dr Stephen Duckworth

February 1, 2018 0

Home Office IT failure stalls disabled civil servant’s career, MPs hear

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A disabled civil servant has told MPs how her career has stalled because of the failure of the IT systems in the Home Office to cope with the assistive technology she needs to do her job. Jo-Ann Moran, a senior executive officer in the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, told the work and pensions

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January 25, 2018 0

DWP refuses to name charities set to earn millions from new disability jobs scheme

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The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to name the charities and other organisations being paid millions of pounds to help deliver its new disability employment programme across England and Wales. All six of the new Work and Health Programme contracts went “live” last week, and DWP announced the main contractors in October.

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Sarah Newton speaking in the House of Commons

January 18, 2018 0

Newton dodges questions on government’s disability record by pulling out of meeting

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The minister for disabled people pulled out of a meeting with MPs, peers and disabled campaigners, days after agreeing to be questioned about her government’s disability employment strategy. Sarah Newton had promised to attend this week’s meeting of the all-party parliamentary group for disability (APPGD) to discuss Improving Lives, her government’s new work, health

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