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Years of government policies ‘have had little or no impact on job discrimination’

By John Pring on 22nd June 2023 Category: Employment

Years of government policies ‘have had little or no impact on job discrimination’
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Mounting evidence suggests that years of government employment policies have had little or no impact on reducing the discrimination disabled people face in the jobs market. Government figures and new analysis show instead that disability equality for disabled people has remained […]

Minister defends use of misleading jobs figures at UN

By John Pring on 16th June 2022 Category: Employment

Minister defends use of misleading jobs figures at UN
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The minister for disabled people and a senior civil servant have defended the use of misleading figures about the government’s performance on disability employment at a United Nations event in New York. They made the comments yesterday (Wednesday) at an event […]

Shock as employers’ organisation drops support for mandatory reporting

By John Pring on 2nd June 2022 Category: Employment

Shock as employers’ organisation drops support for mandatory reporting
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An influential disability employment membership organisation is facing serious questions over why it suddenly dropped its support for proposals that would force larger employers to reveal how many disabled people they employ. The Business Disability Forum (BDF) revealed its about-turn in […]

Government’s ‘milestone’ disability jobs stats ‘are meaningless when it comes to equality’

By John Pring on 19th May 2022 Category: Employment

Government’s ‘milestone’ disability jobs stats ‘are meaningless when it comes to equality’
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New government figures that show an increase of 1.3 million in the number of disabled people in work since 2017 are “meaningless” when it comes to the inequality disabled people face in the jobs market, ministers have been warned. The minister […]

Ministers ‘should admit figures show zero progress on disability employment’

By John Pring on 24th February 2022 Category: Employment

Ministers ‘should admit figures show zero progress on disability employment’
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Suggestions that ministers have reduced the disadvantage faced by disabled people in the jobs market are misleading and based on “flawed” measures, a disability employment expert has told Disability News Service (DNS). Ministers have persistently claimed that government policies have narrowed […]

MPs and experts rubbish government’s claims it cut disability employment gap

By John Pring on 5th August 2021 Category: Employment

MPs and experts rubbish government’s claims it cut disability employment gap
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MPs and academics have dismissed claims by ministers in their new National Disability Strategy that the government has slashed the disability employment gap over the last seven years. The claim that the gap – the difference between the proportion of disabled […]

Claim that government reduced the disability employment gap is wrong, experts tell MPs

By John Pring on 25th February 2021 Category: Employment

Claim that government reduced the disability employment gap is wrong, experts tell MPs
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The government has made no progress since 2010 in closing the disability employment gap, MPs were told yesterday by academics. Ministers have long bragged about their success in reducing the difference between the proportion of disabled people and non-disabled people in […]

Two flagship DWP disability jobs schemes slated in front of MPs

By John Pring on 25th February 2021 Category: Employment

Two flagship DWP disability jobs schemes slated in front of MPs
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Two of the government’s flagship disability employment schemes have been heavily criticised by a pair of disabled campaigners in a parliamentary evidence session. The Commons work and pensions committee was hearing evidence for its inquiry into the disability employment gap, the […]

Round-up: £1 million funding for DPOs, work inquiry, TUC pay gap report… and Baywatch

By John Pring on 5th November 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Round-up: £1 million funding for DPOs, work inquiry, TUC pay gap report… and Baywatch
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Nearly 100 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across the UK have secured more than £1 million in funding to help them deliver grassroots emergency support to disabled people during the pandemic. A total of £1,092,906 of funding from the National Emergencies Trust […]

The truth about the government’s disability jobs ‘miracle’

By John Pring on 15th October 2020 Category: Employment

The truth about the government’s disability jobs ‘miracle’
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The government’s repeated claims that its policies have transformed the employment prospects of disabled people over the last seven years have been challenged by academics who suggest their figures are simply the result of a statistical quirk. Disabled activists have been […]

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