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Experts call for focus on Access to Work, adjustments, attitudes… and funding

By John Pring on 18th August 2016 Category: Employment

Experts call for focus on Access to Work, adjustments, attitudes… and funding
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Disabled experts have suggested a raft of ways in which the government could help to fulfil its commitment to halving the disability employment gap. The ideas came during a public evidence session held at Somerset House in central London, part of […]

Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’

By John Pring on 28th July 2016 Category: Employment

Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’
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Disabled campaigners have given mixed reviews to a new version of the government’s Disability Confident employment scheme, with one saying he was “genuinely shocked” by how weak it was. Disability Confident – which has urged employers to “see the ability, not […]

Drop in Access to Work numbers shows DWP ‘is strangling the scheme’

By John Pring on 21st July 2016 Category: Employment

Drop in Access to Work numbers shows DWP ‘is strangling the scheme’
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The government is facing calls for a “fundamental rethink” of its approach to Access to Work (AtW), after new figures showed the number of disabled people receiving support through the employment scheme fell last year. At its peak, in 2009-10, under […]

Disability employment gap: Former diplomat calls for government action

By John Pring on 7th July 2016 Category: Employment

Disability employment gap: Former diplomat calls for government action
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The government must do more to research the benefits of disabled people finding work, according to a former diplomat who was forced to quit after the Foreign Office refused to fund the lip-speakers she needed to do her job. Jane Cordell […]

Crabb scrapped IDS’s white paper because he ‘didn’t like the look of it’

By John Pring on 30th June 2016 Category: Employment

Crabb scrapped IDS’s white paper because he ‘didn’t like the look of it’
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The new work and pensions secretary scrapped the disability and employment white paper prepared by his predecessor Iain Duncan Smith because he “didn’t like the look” of it, a Tory MP has told a parliamentary meeting. The new work and pensions […]

Disability Confident attracts just 40 mainstream private sector partners… in three years

By John Pring on 2nd June 2016 Category: Employment

Disability Confident attracts just 40 mainstream private sector partners… in three years
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The government has signed up only about 40 mainstream private sector employers to its flagship Disability Confident employment scheme in the three years since it was launched by the prime minister, new figures reveal. An analysis by Disability News Service (DNS) […]

Charity Commission launches probe into arts charity after founder is sacked

By John Pring on 2nd June 2016 Category: Employment

Charity Commission launches probe into arts charity after founder is sacked
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The Charity Commission has launched an investigation into concerns about the running of a user-led mental health arts charity that has sacked its founder, after she spent 25 years building its reputation. Michelle Baharier (pictured) called on the Charity Commission to […]

Employment support overhaul is vital, says new report

By John Pring on 2nd June 2016 Category: Employment

Employment support overhaul is vital, says new report
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The government must work closely with disabled people and user-led organisations to rebuild trust damaged by the flawed work capability assessment (WCA) if it wants to improve its failing welfare-to-work programmes, according to a new report. The report by The Work […]

Peer support ‘could provide impetus for government’s jobs pledge’

By John Pring on 26th May 2016 Category: Employment

Peer support ‘could provide impetus for government’s jobs pledge’
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Providing support from their peers is an effective way of boosting disabled people’s job prospects, and should be used far more in government work programmes, according to two new studies. The research from Disability Rights UK (DR UK) and The Work […]

Campaigners fear Crabb has abandoned target to halve employment gap

By John Pring on 19th May 2016 Category: Employment

Campaigners fear Crabb has abandoned target to halve employment gap
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The government may have abandoned its target to halve the disability employment gap, according to a leading disabled people’s organisation. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) said it feared comments made last week by the new work and pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, […]

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