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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 […]

Report calls for disability poverty action plan for Glasgow

By John Pring on 5th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Report calls for disability poverty action plan for Glasgow
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are set to play a key role in drawing up a plan to address disability poverty in Glasgow. The call for an action plan is one of the recommendations from a report for Glasgow City Council’s Social […]

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 […]

Government’s failure on job support for disabled people is ‘unacceptable’, MPs hear

By John Pring on 6th January 2022 Category: Employment

Government’s failure on job support for disabled people is ‘unacceptable’, MPs hear
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The government’s failure to spend enough money on specialist employment support for disabled people is unacceptable, MPs have been told by policy and research experts. Members of the Commons work and pensions committee were told the government was “not doing enough” […]

DWP admits losing six more disability-related employment tribunals

By John Pring on 25th November 2021 Category: Employment

DWP admits losing six more disability-related employment tribunals
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The number of disability-related employment tribunals being lost by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have increased since its “shocking track record” of discrimination against its disabled staff was exposed by a documentary 20 months ago. Peter Schofield, […]

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 […]

Conservative conference: Coffey signals new bid to push support group towards work

By John Pring on 7th October 2021 Category: Employment

Conservative conference: Coffey signals new bid to push support group towards work
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has strongly signalled that her department will launch a new bid to try to push more disabled people with high support needs into work. Coffey, speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative party conference […]

Conservative conference: New minister silent on plummeting Access to Work figures

By John Pring on 7th October 2021 Category: Employment

Conservative conference: New minister silent on plummeting Access to Work figures
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The new minister for disabled people has refused to comment on figures that show how spending on Access to Work (AtW) plummeted during the pandemic, despite ministers plugging the programme during this week’s Conservative party conference. Chloe Smith highlighted the scheme […]

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 […]

DWP’s JobcentrePlus failure on access is ‘unacceptable’, say MPs

By John Pring on 5th August 2021 Category: Employment

DWP’s JobcentrePlus failure on access is ‘unacceptable’, say MPs
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The failure of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to ensure that the employment services it provides to disabled people through JobcentrePlus are accessible is “simply unacceptable”, according to a cross-party committee of MPs. In a new report on the […]

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