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Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’

By John Pring on 19th April 2018 Category: Employment

Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’
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Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new Work and Health Programme must promise to “pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” of work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, official documents suggest. The charities, and other […]

League table ‘would help government departments improve on assistive technology’

By John Pring on 19th April 2018 Category: Employment

League table ‘would help government departments improve on assistive technology’
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The government should set up a league table of its departments so it can compare their performance in enabling the use of assistive technology by disabled civil servants, a committee of MPs has suggested. The Commons work and pensions select committee […]

Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

By John Pring on 12th April 2018 Category: Employment

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Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme could be at risk of losing their jobs because the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to refuse to renew a three-year funding agreement. The funding was awarded […]

Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’

By John Pring on 22nd March 2018 Category: Employment

Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’
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The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work (AtW) payments does not go far enough, and its “discriminatory” cap must be scrapped completely, according to disabled campaigners. They spoke out after a partial U-turn on the AtW cap […]

Absence of stats ‘is killer blow to government’s disability employment pledge’

By John Pring on 1st March 2018 Category: Employment

Absence of stats ‘is killer blow to government’s disability employment pledge’
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The failure to provide up-to-date figures showing how many disabled people are in work is a “killer blow” to the government’s pledge to move one million more disabled people into work by 2027, say campaigners. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) […]

Government ‘must do more on disability employment’, MPs hear

By John Pring on 1st March 2018 Category: Employment

Government ‘must do more on disability employment’, MPs hear
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The government must do more to offer incentives to businesses to take on disabled people as employees, and to tackle the barriers that prevent them finding jobs, according to cross-party MPs. MPs from Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the […]

Deaf chief executive wins right to challenge Access to Work cap in court

By John Pring on 15th February 2018 Category: Employment

Deaf chief executive wins right to challenge Access to Work cap in court
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A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the government’s “discriminatory” cap on Access to Work (AtW) payments in the high court, in the latest legal challenge to the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) disability policy agenda. David […]

Home Office IT failure stalls disabled civil servant’s career, MPs hear

By John Pring on 1st February 2018 Category: Employment

Home Office IT failure stalls disabled civil servant’s career, MPs hear
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A disabled civil servant has told MPs how her career has stalled because of the failure of the IT systems in the Home Office to cope with the assistive technology she needs to do her job. Jo-Ann Moran, a senior executive […]

DWP refuses to name charities set to earn millions from new disability jobs scheme

By John Pring on 25th January 2018 Category: Employment

DWP refuses to name charities set to earn millions from new disability jobs scheme
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The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to name the charities and other organisations being paid millions of pounds to help deliver its new disability employment programme across England and Wales. All six of the new Work and Health Programme […]

Newton dodges questions on government’s disability record by pulling out of meeting

By John Pring on 18th January 2018 Category: Employment

Newton dodges questions on government’s disability record by pulling out of meeting
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The minister for disabled people pulled out of a meeting with MPs, peers and disabled campaigners, days after agreeing to be questioned about her government’s disability employment strategy. Sarah Newton had promised to attend this week’s meeting of the all-party parliamentary […]

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