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Access to Work crisis: Another Deaf leader speaks out

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Another Deaf leader speaks out
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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 […]

Access to Work crisis: Minister apologises for bungled reforms

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Minister apologises for bungled reforms
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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 […]

Access to Work crisis: Minister is ‘full of hot air’

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Minister is ‘full of hot air’
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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 […]

Tory peer Freud survives Commons vote after offensive comments

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Employment, Human Rights, News Archive, Politics

Tory peer Freud survives Commons vote after offensive comments
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Labour has failed in an attempt to persuade MPs to call on the prime minister to sack his welfare reform minister, after he was recorded telling fellow Tories that some disabled people were not worth the minimum wage. Green said the […]

Access to Work crisis: Graeae boss fears for career due to cuts and delays

By John Pring on 24th October 2014 Category: Employment, Human Rights, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Graeae boss fears for career due to cuts and delays
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The country’s leading disabled-led theatre group has had to cancel international work, while its artistic director now fears for her career, because of cuts and delays in dealing with applications to the government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme. The problems faced […]

Access to Work crisis: Changes have brought ‘stress and uncertainty’

By John Pring on 24th October 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Changes have brought ‘stress and uncertainty’
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Secret government cuts to its Access to Work (AtW) programme have put at risk a disabled manager’s job with a leading user-led organisation. Berni Vincent has been working for Spectrum Centre for Independent Living – formerly Southampton Centre for Independent Living […]

Access to Work crisis: Chaos brings threats to self-employed claimants

By John Pring on 24th October 2014 Category: Employment, Human Rights, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Chaos brings threats to self-employed claimants
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The government has threatened to remove Access to Work funding from a high-profile disabled consultant, because he cannot prove he is self-employed, even though he has been working for himself for the last 16 years. Simon Stevens was presented with a […]

Councils cutting back on workplace adjustments, says new study

By John Pring on 24th October 2014 Category: Employment, Human Rights, News Archive

Councils cutting back on workplace adjustments, says new study
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Local authorities across the UK have cut spending on making their workplaces accessible for disabled employees, as a result of the coalition’s spending cuts, according to new research. The study found that previous “generally good” practice among 33 local authorities examined […]

Protest and petition greet Freud’s ‘disgusting’ comments on minimum wage

By John Pring on 17th October 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive, Politics

Protest and petition greet Freud’s ‘disgusting’ comments on minimum wage
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The government’s welfare reform minister is facing calls to be sacked after suggesting that some disabled people should be allowed to work for less than the minimum wage. Lord Freud, seen as one of the architects of Conservative welfare reform policy, […]

No DWP apology for Work Programme ‘discrimination and punishment’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive

No DWP apology for Work Programme ‘discrimination and punishment’
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A disabled campaigner has criticised the government’s failure to apologise for the “discrimination and punishment” she faced on the Work Programme. Catherine Hale warned that Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) decision-makers appeared to be adopting a “sanction first, ask questions […]

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