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Access to Work: ‘Scheme’s future in jeopardy through cuts and incompetence’

By John Pring on 26th October 2017 Category: Employment

Access to Work: ‘Scheme’s future in jeopardy through cuts and incompetence’
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The future of the government’s Access to Work (AtW) disability employment scheme is in jeopardy because of “bureaucratic incompetence” and a cost-cutting drive to reduce people’s support packages, according to new research. The report, commissioned by Inclusion London, found that “shocking […]

Access to Work: Ombudsman faces questions over investigation

By John Pring on 26th October 2017 Category: Employment

Access to Work: Ombudsman faces questions over investigation
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A parliamentary ombudsman took more than three-and-a-half years to complete an investigation into the government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme, and then failed to make any recommendations for improvements, despite upholding more than 40 complaints. The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman […]

DWP ‘manipulated Access to Work figures to hide cuts and harassment’

By John Pring on 12th October 2017 Category: Employment

DWP ‘manipulated Access to Work figures to hide cuts and harassment’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of manipulating statistics in an attempt to hide the ongoing barriers, cuts and harassment experienced by disabled people seeking support from a key disability employment programme. The claims followed the release […]

DPAC targets marginal seats with quartet of films on austerity impact

By John Pring on 7th June 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPAC targets marginal seats with quartet of films on austerity impact
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Anti-cuts activists have produced four films that show the impact of austerity on disabled people, in a bid to boost Labour’s chances in 50 marginal constituencies in the run-up to election day. Each of the short films being used by Disabled […]

Access to Work cap hits prominent Deaf campaigner as he starts new job

By John Pring on 18th May 2017 Category: Employment

Access to Work cap hits prominent Deaf campaigner as he starts new job
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The newly-appointed Deaf chief executive of a leading disabled people’s organisation has been told the government will only provide him with enough support to pay for interpreters three days every week. David Buxton, a British Sign Language-user, began his full-time job […]

Self-employment can provide choice and control for disabled people, MPs hear

By John Pring on 9th February 2017 Category: Employment

Self-employment can provide choice and control for disabled people, MPs hear
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Three disabled entrepreneurs have told MPs that the government should make it easier for people with impairments to move into self-employment. Jane Cordell, Sara McKee and Robert Winstanley were giving evidence to an inquiry by the Commons work and pensions select […]

Major arts organisations have ‘zero per cent’ disabled staff, Arts Council admits

By John Pring on 15th December 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Major arts organisations have ‘zero per cent’ disabled staff, Arts Council admits
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The arts sector appears to be making gradual progress on increasing the proportion of disabled people in its workforce, although many leading companies have admitted employing no disabled staff at all, a new report by the Arts Council has revealed. The […]

Drop in Access to Work numbers shows DWP ‘is strangling the scheme’

By John Pring on 21st July 2016 Category: Employment

Drop in Access to Work numbers shows DWP ‘is strangling the scheme’
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The government is facing calls for a “fundamental rethink” of its approach to Access to Work (AtW), after new figures showed the number of disabled people receiving support through the employment scheme fell last year. At its peak, in 2009-10, under […]

Government ‘must see disabled people as innovators and contributors’

By John Pring on 14th April 2016 Category: Employment

Government ‘must see disabled people as innovators and contributors’
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Disabled entrepreneurs have told the government’s business department that it is not doing enough to make its programmes accessible. In a meeting of the all-party parliamentary disability group, a senior civil servant listened as disabled entrepreneurs lined up to express their […]

Disabled MP’s jobs warning to government: ‘Do not under-estimate prejudice’

By John Pring on 14th January 2016 Category: Employment

Disabled MP’s jobs warning to government: ‘Do not under-estimate prejudice’
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A disabled Conservative MP has warned the government not to underestimate the difficulty of achieving its aim of halving the disability employment gap because of the extent of “prejudice” faced by disabled people. Paul Maynard, MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys […]

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