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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 Unpublished figures released to Disability News Service (DNS) show there […]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 […]
The minister for disabled people has pledged to carry out a “root and branch” review of the government’s Disability Confident employment scheme, following a decade of criticism from disabled campaigners. Tom Pursglove, who was giving evidence to the work and pensions […]
Discrimination faced by disabled staff within the Metropolitan police has become “baked into the system”, a review of the force’s culture and standards has found. But despite multiple findings of disability discrimination, the report by the crossbench peer Baroness [Louise] Casey […]
An autistic detective who was bullied out of her dream job by the “toxic and discriminatory” actions of her managers is calling for the Metropolitan police to do more to improve the treatment of neurodivergent officers. Mia*, who also has a […]
Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has attacked the “totally unacceptable” number of disabled people who return to work after being found not fit for work by the government’s assessment system. In a major policy speech, Jonathan Ashworth (pictured) said that […]