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The care watchdog has been criticised for awarding a discredited outsourcing giant new contracts to manage the use of service-users as expert advisers in care homes and hospitals. Two-thirds of the new contracts to run Experts by Experience – which pays […]
A disabled peer has called on the government to hand out fewer “carrots” to employers and do more to enforce existing equality law as it attempts to secure more jobs for disabled people. The plea came after Justin Tomlinson, the minister […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has caused confusion after refusing to confirm what appeared to be a huge increase in funding for the programme that supports disabled people in the workplace. The spending review, published on Wednesday, included the […]
The government is refusing to release figures that would reveal how many disabled people have had their packages of employment support cut after being reassessed. Disability News Service (DNS) lodged a freedom of information request in September, asking the Department for […]
The minister for disabled people has said that Britain would become a “world leader” in securing jobs for disabled people if it manages to meet its target of halving the disability employment gap. The prime minister, David Cameron, has put his […]
A disabled woman says she feels pressured to hand back her Motability vehicle, after the government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme told her it will continue to pay her travel expenses to work if she does so. Pauline McGuigan, from Dunbartonshire, […]
A disabled woman could be forced to quit her job of nearly 20 years because the government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme has threatened to stop paying for taxis she needs to get to work. Pauline McGuigan, from Dunbartonshire, works three […]
A leading member of the self-advocacy movement has called on peers to investigate huge apparent cuts to in-work support for people with learning difficulties. Andrew Lee, director of policy and campaigns at People First Self-Advocacy, said he and colleagues believed the […]
A disabled researcher and campaigner has criticised a new report by a cross-party committee of MPs for failing to acknowledge fully the “perverse contradiction” at the heart of the government’s specialist employment programme. Catherine Hale, who wrote a well-received review on the failure […]
A disabled man has had to return to the factory where he has twice been victimised by the same manager in a campaign of bullying and harassment that he says has lasted more than seven years. An employment tribunal has decided […]