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Access to Work crisis: Scheme must improve, say MPs

By John Pring on 19th December 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive, Politics

Access to Work crisis: Scheme must improve, say MPs
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The Access to Work (AtW) scheme is only helping a minority of the disabled people it should be supporting in the workplace, according to a committee of MPs. The work and pensions select committee report also warns that a new rule […]

Government adviser criticises lack of ‘true’ disability employment strategy

By John Pring on 12th December 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive

Government adviser criticises lack of ‘true’ disability employment strategy
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Ministers have been criticised by one of their own disabled advisers for their failure to produce a genuine disability employment strategy. Liz Sayce, who produced a report on employment support for disabled people for the government three years ago, spoke out […]

Access to Work crisis: DWP faces legal action over secret guidance

By John Pring on 5th December 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: DWP faces legal action over secret guidance
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Disabled people are taking legal action in a bid to force the government to publish secret guidance that decides who is eligible for employment support under its under-fire Access to Work (AtW) scheme. Disability News Service (DNS) has run a string […]

Access to Work crisis: Advice worker could lose her job over ‘ridiculous’ ruling

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: Employment, Human Rights, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Advice worker could lose her job over ‘ridiculous’ ruling
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A Deaf advice worker could lose her job because of a “ridiculous” ruling by Access to Work advisers, who rejected her application because they claimed the interpreters who helped her communicate with clients were “doing the work” for her. Lottie Powell […]

Access to work crisis: Planning expert tells Tories about ‘nonsense’ rules

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive

Access to work crisis: Planning expert tells Tories about ‘nonsense’ rules
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A disabled planning consultant has described how he is only able to claim vital support from the government’s Access to Work scheme for one year out of every two, because of “nonsense” cost-cutting rules introduced by the coalition. Philip Barton raised […]

Disabled Tories hear minister praise government’s jobs record

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive, Politics

Disabled Tories hear minister praise government’s jobs record
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The minister for disabled people has praised his government’s record on employing disabled people, with more than a quarter of a million more in work in the last year. Conservative Mark Harper said there were now more than three million disabled […]

Judge brands DWP jobseeker’s agreement ‘unlawful’, after action by disabled claimant

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Judge brands DWP jobseeker’s agreement ‘unlawful’, after action by disabled claimant
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A judge has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that part of the agreement signed by out-of-work benefit claimants does not comply with the law, following a legal challenge from a disabled job-seeker. The comments by Judge Christopher Ward […]

Work Programme failure to help disabled people ‘is a scandal’

By John Pring on 7th November 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive, Politics

Work Programme failure to help disabled people ‘is a scandal’
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The failure of Work Programme contractors to provide enough employment support to disabled people and other “harder-to-help” benefit claimants is “a scandal”, according to the chair of an influential committee of MPs. Labour MP Margaret Hodge said the government’s decision to […]

Access to Work crisis: Shock government request to employers

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

Access to Work crisis: Shock government request to employers
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The government has resorted to asking employers to move Deaf members of staff to jobs that require less use of interpreters, according to campaigners protesting about the coalition’s changes and cuts to the troubled Access to Work (AtW) scheme. Members of […]

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 […]

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