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Employment

July 20, 2017 0

Senior civil servant admits draft industrial strategy failed on disability

A senior civil servant has admitted to MPs and peers that the government’s industrial strategy will not be “fit for purpose” unless it corrects its failure to consider disability and other equality issues in a green paper it published in January. Alex Williams, the civil servant responsible for sector deals* for the Department for

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Two men and a woman beside a poster which says 'help me spend my money'

July 13, 2017 0

Purple boss raises concerns over Disability Confident accreditation

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New concerns have been raised about the government’s Disability Confident employment campaign, after a leading disabled social entrepreneur said that some businesses could be finding it easier than intended to secure the highest level of accreditation. Mike Adams, chief executive of the social enterprise Purple, said he was concerned that some organisations providing Disability

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David Cameron launching Disability Confident

May 11, 2017

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DWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been declared a gold-standard employer of disabled people under its own much-criticised scheme, despite being found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of the UN disability convention. DWP documents obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) through a freedom of information request show how it was “validated”

Employment

March 30, 2017

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‘Disability Confident’ advocacy charity ‘discriminated against disabled employee’

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A disability charity that has signed up to the government’s Disability Confident scheme for employers has been forced to pay more than £3,000 to a disabled woman who claimed she was discriminated against and unfairly dismissed. Tmara Senior (pictured) worked for Cloverleaf Advocacy in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, for more than three years, before she

Employment

November 24, 2016

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DWP admits most Disability Confident employers just skipped across from Two Ticks

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted flooding its under-fire Disability Confident scheme with hundreds of employers from the hugely-discredited disability employment programme it is replacing. The revelation is yet another blow to the credibility of the newly-relaunched scheme. Penny Mordaunt, the minister for disabled people, boasted earlier this month that more

Employment

November 17, 2016

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Disability Confident will be ‘trivially easy’ for employers to abuse, research suggests

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The government’s scheme aimed at encouraging employers to take on disabled staff is “trivially easy to abuse” and allows organisations to describe themselves as “Disability Confident” even if they do not comply with anti-discrimination laws, new research suggests. Disability Confident was relaunched this month, but disabled researcher David Gillon says his analysis shows it

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Extract from membership list showing Boobylicious

November 10, 2016

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What do Remploy, Capita and Maximus have in common? They’re all Disability Confident

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A company that tried to halve its disabled advisors’ pay; a religious order responsible for decades of abuse of disabled people; and a police force facing two discrimination inquiries… are just three of the employers that have described themselves as “disability confident”. The trio are a sample of more than 2,400 organisations that have

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Head and shoulders of Justin Tomlinson giving evidence to a parliamentary committee

July 28, 2016

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Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’

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Disabled campaigners have given mixed reviews to a new version of the government’s Disability Confident employment scheme, with one saying he was “genuinely shocked” by how weak it was. Disability Confident – which has urged employers to “see the ability, not the disability” – has attracted criticism since its launch three years ago for

Activism and Campaigning

July 14, 2016

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Jobs focus and dropping user-led status could usher in new Purple reign, says Adams

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One of the country’s leading disabled people’s organisations is to end its commitment to being a user-led charity in a bid to become a national player in the employment support market. Essex Coalition of Disabled People, which has been known for five years as ecdp, is being replaced by a new organisation, Purple, which

Activism and Campaigning

June 3, 2016

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COMMENT: DWP press office and the art of facts avoidance

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This is a blog which I shouldn’t have to write, but which I think demonstrates just how desperate the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has become to avoid admitting uncomfortable truths about its policies and performance. I believe this is an issue that raises important questions about the impartiality of the Civil Service

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