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Labour and its disability minister appear to be in dispute over assistance dog discrimination at party conference

By John Pring on 14th November 2024 Category: Politics

Labour and its disability minister appear to be in dispute over assistance dog discrimination at party conference
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Labour appears set for a serious disagreement with its own minister for disability, after apparently rejecting his advice about a disabled member who was prevented from attending the party’s annual conference with her assistance dog. Sir Stephen Timms wrote to the […]

Labour’s Cabinet Office refuses to release information on Tory Disability Action Plan

By John Pring on 25th July 2024 Category: Politics

Labour’s Cabinet Office refuses to release information on Tory Disability Action Plan
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The Cabinet Office has refused to release information that would confirm how little the last government was planning to spend on its much-criticised short-term plan that it claimed would improve disabled people’s lives. The plan, which contained 32 actions across 14 […]

DWP can’t find report on universal credit safety that PM’s unit told it to write

By John Pring on 6th June 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP can’t find report on universal credit safety that PM’s unit told it to write
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Cabinet Office have both been unable to find a report that was supposed to describe how DWP supported “vulnerable” people who rely on the universal credit benefit system. DWP was told to […]

Government fails to act over minister who shared post on ‘dangerous’ DWP policies

By John Pring on 9th May 2024 Category: Politics

Government fails to act over minister who shared post on ‘dangerous’ DWP policies
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The government is refusing to act or criticise its minister for disabled people after she shared a social media post that attacked her own department’s disability benefit reforms. Last week, Mims Davies shared a post on Twitter by a disability charity […]

Cabinet Office finally finds missing report showing difficulties facing ‘vulnerable’ universal credit claimants

By John Pring on 28th March 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Cabinet Office finally finds missing report showing difficulties facing ‘vulnerable’ universal credit claimants
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The Cabinet Office has finally found a missing report that showed the “additional difficulties” faced by “vulnerable” universal credit claimants, despite originally claiming it could not locate the document. The existence of the 2019 report was not known about outside government […]

DWP and Cabinet Office can’t find secret report that exposed universal credit flaws

By John Pring on 18th January 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP and Cabinet Office can’t find secret report that exposed universal credit flaws
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The government has lost or destroyed a secret report that was set to reveal crucial details about the impact of universal credit on “vulnerable” claimants in its early years. The existence of the report was not known about outside government circles […]

Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’

By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights

Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’
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The UK government has been accused of showing contempt for disabled people after it refused to give evidence on its progress since being found guilty of “grave and systematic” violations of the UN’s disability convention seven years ago. The government has told […]

We don’t care if our disability ambassadors are disabled, government admits

By John Pring on 4th May 2023 Category: Politics

We don’t care if our disability ambassadors are disabled, government admits
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The Cabinet Office has admitted that it does not ask its own disability ambassadors if they self-identify as disabled people, sparking serious concerns about the government’s commitment to equality. The government now has 20 disability and access ambassadors across areas such […]

Cabinet Office silent on blackout reports because of ‘national security’

By John Pring on 8th December 2022 Category: Independent Living

Cabinet Office silent on blackout reports because of ‘national security’
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The government is refusing to release documents which could show what measures it is taking – if any – to protect disabled people who rely on medical equipment in their own homes, in the event of power blackouts this winter. Disability […]

Only one in three DWP websites complies with access laws, says internal report

By John Pring on 7th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Only one in three DWP websites complies with access laws, says internal report
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Fewer than one third of the websites and other digital services run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is compliant with its legal duties on accessibility, according to an internal report obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. A […]

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