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 […]
Disability Confident
‘Disability Confident’ advocacy charity ‘discriminated against disabled employee’
DWP admits most Disability Confident employers just skipped across from Two Ticks
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. […]
Disability Confident will be ‘trivially easy’ for employers to abuse, research suggests
What do Remploy, Capita and Maximus have in common? They’re all Disability Confident
Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’
Jobs focus and dropping user-led status could usher in new Purple reign, says Adams
COMMENT: DWP press office and the art of facts avoidance
Disability Confident attracts just 40 mainstream private sector partners… in three years
Discrimination against disabled staff shoots up at DWP, the home of ‘Disability Confident’
The number of disabled civil servants who have faced discrimination within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has risen by nearly a quarter in just a year, according to “shocking” and “very worrying” new figures. More than 1, 400 disabled […]