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A disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has launched a pioneering new social enterprise that will make it easier for disabled people to secure personal assistants to support them at work. Breakthrough UK – one of the UK’s longest-established DPOs – said EqualEdge […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has declined to welcome its own figures which show a huge increase in spending on the Access to Work disability employment scheme. The new figures show spending of more than £180 million in 2022-23, […]
More than a third of employers who signed up to the government’s discredited disability employment scheme failed to employ a single disabled person after they joined, according to a report commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The report […]
An autistic man will receive £20,000 compensation after a “discriminatory” refusal to make the reasonable adjustments he requested for a job interview with the government agency responsible for NHS digital technology. Chris Tyerman applied in August 2021 for posts in cyber […]
A key government disability jobs programme had “no discernible impact” on helping people with long-term health conditions into work, a new series of reports has found. The reports on two Individual Placement and Support (IPS) trials found the costs of running […]
Ministers have only made a tiny dent in the number of disabled people waiting for a decision on their Access to Work claim in the last year, new figures have revealed. Unpublished figures released to Disability News Service (DNS) show there […]
Unions have called for government action to address the “absolutely criminal” pay gap between disabled and non-disabled employees. New TUC figures were released this week ahead of the first in-person TUC Disabled Workers Conference since the start of the pandemic. Dave […]
The four most senior members of the royal family are refusing to release details of how many disabled people they employ across their two households. Both Buckingham Palace, headed by the king and queen, and Kensington Palace, headed by the prince […]
Mounting evidence suggests that years of government employment policies have had little or no impact on reducing the discrimination disabled people face in the jobs market. Government figures and new analysis show instead that disability equality for disabled people has remained […]
New guidance that stresses that employers are allowed to reserve jobs for disabled people should help narrow the disability employment gap, say the disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that asked for the legal advice to be published. Inclusion Barnet’s chief executive, Caroline […]