Job coaches with no academic qualifications could be making life-changing – and potentially life-ending – decisions on whether a disabled person must carry out work-related activity, if the government goes ahead with its plans to scrap the “fitness for work” test. […]
Chronic Illness Inclusion
Six disability campaigners tell MPs: Government’s benefit reforms are not fit for purpose
Six disability campaigners have delivered scathing criticism of the government’s controversial new disability benefits reforms, in evidence to a committee of MPs. The representatives of three disabled people’s organisations and two disability charities joined a Conservative disabled peer in delivering an […]
Anger over ‘nail in coffin’ civil service job cuts, with DWP already facing ‘serious backlogs’
EHRC refuses to apologise over ‘shameful’ long Covid blunder
Hostile assessment system needs fundamental overhaul, MPs are told
Call for action on ‘unique’ barriers facing people with energy-limiting impairments
National Disability Strategy: New analysis shows document is ‘just cynical repackaging’
BBC warned over ‘wildly irresponsible’ documentary on social media ‘fakery’ allegations
Disabled campaigners have warned that a BBC documentary about social media “influencers” allegedly faking their chronic illnesses, and BBC News coverage promoting the programme, were “wildly irresponsible” and risk inflaming the hostile environment they already face. The documentary, Sickness and Lies, […]