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News round-up: Capita, basic income, immigration, arts diversity, UC… and Motability

By John Pring on 20th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

News round-up: Capita, basic income, immigration, arts diversity, UC… and Motability
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The performance of one of the government’s disability benefit assessment contractors has worsened over the last year and has remained well outside a government target it has never met, new figures have revealed. They show that the proportion of personal independence […]

News round-up: Prescription forms, Brexit, disability arts, hate crime… and ferries

By John Pring on 23rd January 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

News round-up: Prescription forms, Brexit, disability arts, hate crime… and ferries
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The Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS Business Services Authority are finally about to publish new versions of a form that will allow disabled people claiming universal credit to show their pharmacist if they are entitled to free […]

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders

By John Pring on 5th September 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders
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Disabled-led organisations have secured funding of more than £750,000 to develop three separate programmes that will aim to produce more disabled leaders in the arts. All three of the programmes receiving funding from Arts Council England (ACE) are headed by disabled-led […]

‘Disability Confident’ Arts Council England’s job stats shame

By John Pring on 14th February 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

‘Disability Confident’ Arts Council England’s job stats shame
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The Arts Council has admitted that only two per cent of its directors – and just three per cent of its managers – are disabled people, despite having achieved “Disability Confident Employer” status under the government’s discredited disability employment scheme. Arts […]

Disability arts misses out again, despite huge rise in diverse-led Arts Council funding

By John Pring on 29th June 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts misses out again, despite huge rise in diverse-led Arts Council funding
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Disability arts organisations have missed out on a huge increase in funding that has been handed to other diverse-led groups by Arts Council England (ACE). Although there has been a significant increase in the number of disability-led arts organisations that will […]

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Arts and cultural organisations ‘failing on jobs’

By John Pring on 25th May 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Arts and cultural organisations ‘failing on jobs’
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Many large publicly-funded arts and cultural organisations are failing to employ any disabled people at all, union activists have heard at their annual conference. The TUC’s Disabled Workers’ Conference in London (pictured) heard from representatives of musicians’ and actors’ unions, and […]

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 […]

Arts Council scheme should boost disabled arts leaders

By John Pring on 20th October 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Arts Council scheme should boost disabled arts leaders
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The Arts Council has announced that it is to spend more than £2.5 million on a programme that aims to increase the number of disabled people in senior leadership roles in England’s arts and cultural organisations. The £2.57 million Change Makers […]

Arts Council funding is ‘vote of confidence’ in disability arts organisation

By John Pring on 11th August 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Arts Council funding is ‘vote of confidence’ in disability arts organisation
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The Arts Council has awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds to the disability arts movement in a bid to address the under-representation of disabled-led organisations among those receiving its funding. Arts Council England (ACE) announced this week that it was awarding […]

Unlimited expansion set to influence international perception of disabled artists

By John Pring on 28th January 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Unlimited expansion set to influence international perception of disabled artists
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New funding of more than £1.5 million is set to deliver an international extension to a disability arts commissioning programme that grew out of London 2012, and help influence how disabled people are perceived in other countries. Unlimited has secured more […]

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