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A high-profile report by former Labour minister Alan Milburn suggests he will recommend more young disabled people must engage with employment support and face sanctions if they fail to do so, but ignores the safeguarding risks of such a strategy. Milburn’s […]
New government research has proved disabled activists were right to warn that receiving employment advice on top of NHS talking therapy would push many people with mental distress further away from the jobs market. Mental health system survivors, anti-cuts activists and […]
The government is facing serious questions over the success of a key employment support scheme, after its own research showed the NHS organisations running its pilot projects fell far short of their targets for recruiting disabled people. Ministers frequently point to […]
A new disabled-led scheme in Wales is set to provide a “bridge for disabled people” who are facing lengthy delays with their Access to Work applications. Disabled campaigners have been raising the alarm for months about the backlogs plaguing the Access […]
The former Labour minister commissioned to investigate why so many younger people are not in jobs, training or education has told MPs that he believes work can be a cure for the “tsunami of distress” affecting young people. Former Labour health […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found another excuse for not releasing vital information that would show why cuts were made to many disabled people’s Access to Work packages after Labour came to power in July 2024. Disability News […]
Self-employed disabled people are waiting nearly two years for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to even begin working on their Access to Work application if they are seen as a “non-priority” case, new figures have confirmed. The figures, obtained […]
The government should halt its cuts and reforms to Access to Work and commission new research to show exactly how important the scheme is to the disabled people who rely on it to stay working, according to a new report. The […]
The government has secretly imposed a “stealth” real-terms cut to the maximum amount disabled people can receive through the Access to Work disability employment scheme. The cut is most likely to impact disabled people with high communication support needs, particularly Deaf […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to release a secret internal report that is likely to expose the flaws and failings at the heart of its under-fire Access to Work disability employment scheme. It is the department’s latest […]