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Ministers have already broken six Disability Strategy pledges, just months after launch

By John Pring on 13th January 2022 Category: Politics

Ministers have already broken six Disability Strategy pledges, just months after launch
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The government has already broken at least six promises it made in last summer’s much-criticised National Disability Strategy, responses by various departments this week have confirmed. Analysis of the strategy, published last July, shows that at least six of the actions […]

New charter calls for ‘bold’ action from government on disability employment

By John Pring on 21st October 2021 Category: Employment

New charter calls for ‘bold’ action from government on disability employment
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Disabled people’s organisations and allies have joined together to issue a series of demands to the government that they believe would help to end employment discrimination against disabled people. The new Disability Employment Charter makes demands of the government in nine […]

Peers and MPs hear fierce attack on government’s disability employment record

By John Pring on 22nd April 2021 Category: Employment

Peers and MPs hear fierce attack on government’s disability employment record
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The government’s record on disability employment has come under fierce attack during a parliamentary meeting. MPs and peers on the all-party parliamentary group on disability heard from experts from business, academia and the disability movement on Tuesday on the employment proposals […]

Clear gap between charities’ words and actions on disabled leaders, says research

By John Pring on 11th February 2021 Category: Employment

Clear gap between charities’ words and actions on disabled leaders, says research
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There is a clear gap between the “words and actions” of the voluntary sector when it comes to including and recognising disabled people as employees and leaders, according to new research. The research found that disabled people in senior positions across […]

Company implicated in benefit death of disabled mum secures ‘gold standard’ DWP award

By John Pring on 4th February 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Company implicated in benefit death of disabled mum secures ‘gold standard’ DWP award
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A private sector contractor has been announced by the government as a “gold standard” employer of disabled people, just as a coroner was implicating the company in the decision of a young disabled mum to take her own life. The Department […]

DWP admits Coffey and Duncan Smith both snubbed Disability Confident

By John Pring on 8th October 2020 Category: Employment

DWP admits Coffey and Duncan Smith both snubbed Disability Confident
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has failed to sign up to her own much-criticised disability employment scheme, Disability Confident, her department has admitted. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has also admitted that Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who launched […]

‘Disability Confident’ firm replaces disabled staff with non-disabled agency workers

By John Pring on 16th July 2020 Category: Employment

‘Disability Confident’ firm replaces disabled staff with non-disabled agency workers
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A company that bragged of being a Disability Confident “Leader” under the government’s discredited employment scheme sacked more than 50 disabled staff when it fell into administration, and then hired mostly non-disabled agency staff to replace them. The workers were employed […]

Coffey shows ‘active contempt’ for rights over Disability Confident snub

By John Pring on 9th July 2020 Category: Uncategorised

Coffey shows ‘active contempt’ for rights over Disability Confident snub
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Work and pensions secretary Dr Therese Coffey has shown “active contempt for disability rights” by refusing to sign up to her own flagship disability employment scheme, information released by the government has confirmed. Disability News Service (DNS) has been trying since […]

DWP silence over Coffey’s absence from list of Disability Confident backers

By John Pring on 12th March 2020 Category: Employment

DWP silence over Coffey’s absence from list of Disability Confident backers
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to say why its secretary of state does not appear to have signed up to her own flagship disability employment scheme. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last week that a DWP database […]

Coffey has no Disability Confidence in her own scheme, DWP list suggests

By John Pring on 5th March 2020 Category: Employment

Coffey has no Disability Confidence in her own scheme, DWP list suggests
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey appears to have failed to sign up to her own department’s flagship disability employment scheme, despite employing staff herself in her role as an MP. Coffey (pictured) has been in post since last September and […]

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