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Less than 80 private sector firms achieve Disability Confident top level in three years

By John Pring on 5th December 2019 Category: Employment

Less than 80 private sector firms achieve Disability Confident top level in three years
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The government’s flagship disability employment scheme has managed to sign up less than 80 private sector employers in more than three years to its highest accreditation level, new research has found. When Disability Confident was relaunched in 2016, the scheme allowed […]

Election 2017: Conservatives promise more emphasis on accessible housing

By John Pring on 25th May 2017 Category: Politics

Election 2017: Conservatives promise more emphasis on accessible housing
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The Conservative party has promised to force local authorities to plan for the provision of accessible housing for disabled and older people, if it retains power in next month’s general election. The party also announced that employers who recruit disabled people […]

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

By John Pring on 11th May 2017 Category: Employment

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 […]

No chance of halving employment gap without tackling independent living, says DPO

By John Pring on 2nd March 2017 Category: Employment

No chance of halving employment gap without tackling independent living, says DPO
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The UK government will not be able to achieve its aim of halving the disability employment gap because of its failure to address the “crucial” issue of independent living, according to a national disabled people’s organisation. In its response to the […]

Mordaunt misleads MPs over Tory disability employment gap target

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Employment

Mordaunt misleads MPs over Tory disability employment gap target
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The minister for disabled people misled a Commons committee about the government’s pledge to halve the disability employment gap… less than two minutes after she began giving evidence. Penny Mordaunt (pictured) began speaking to the work and pensions select committee at […]

It’s official: Ministers have abandoned their disability employment gap target

By John Pring on 24th November 2016 Category: Employment

It’s official: Ministers have abandoned their disability employment gap target
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A Labour MP has proved that the government has abandoned a target it set to halve the disability employment gap by 2020. The promise, included in last year’s general election manifesto, said a Conservative government would “aim to halve the disability […]

Nearly one in three staff laid off by HMRC are disabled, says union

By John Pring on 18th August 2016 Category: Employment

Nearly one in three staff laid off by HMRC are disabled, says union
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Nearly a third of employees who have lost their jobs in an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) compulsory redundancy programme are disabled people, union officials have revealed. Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) demonstrated against the redundancies outside […]

Experts call for focus on Access to Work, adjustments, attitudes… and funding

By John Pring on 18th August 2016 Category: Employment

Experts call for focus on Access to Work, adjustments, attitudes… and funding
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Disabled experts have suggested a raft of ways in which the government could help to fulfil its commitment to halving the disability employment gap. The ideas came during a public evidence session held at Somerset House in central London, part of […]

Disability employment gap: Former diplomat calls for government action

By John Pring on 7th July 2016 Category: Employment

Disability employment gap: Former diplomat calls for government action
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The government must do more to research the benefits of disabled people finding work, according to a former diplomat who was forced to quit after the Foreign Office refused to fund the lip-speakers she needed to do her job. Jane Cordell […]

Disability employment gap: Experts demolish government excuses for WRAG cut

By John Pring on 7th July 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disability employment gap: Experts demolish government excuses for WRAG cut
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A trio of experts have destroyed government claims that cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people will help them find work. They were giving evidence to the Commons work and pensions select committee, as part of its inquiry into the government’s pledge […]

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