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A disabled people’s organisation has accused the government of misrepresenting the high levels of inequality faced by disabled people in the workplace. In its submission to an inquiry by a Commons committee, Disability Rights UK (DR UK) pointed to research which […]
The number of disabled people waiting for a decision on their Access to Work (AtW) claim has continued to rise, six months after the government insisted it had improved the system and was hiring extra staff. The Department for Work and […]
Disabled people who have taken part voluntarily in a government employment support programme have been more likely to find jobs than claimants who were forced into the scheme, research has found. An updated research report on the programme, carried out on […]
An autistic woman has been left without the workplace support she needs for more than 15 months because of repeated delays and incompetence by the government’s Access to Work scheme. Laura’s* employer, the autism support charity Autistic Nottingham, says it is […]
New research has made “a compelling case” that providing flexible working can enable employers to increase their recruitment and retention of disabled people with energy-limiting health conditions. The Making Employment Work for People with Long-Term Conditions report, due to be published […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has declined to welcome its own figures which show a huge increase in spending on the Access to Work disability employment scheme. The new figures show spending of more than £180 million in 2022-23, […]
More than a third of employers who signed up to the government’s discredited disability employment scheme failed to employ a single disabled person after they joined, according to a report commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The report […]
A key government disability jobs programme had “no discernible impact” on helping people with long-term health conditions into work, a new series of reports has found. The reports on two Individual Placement and Support (IPS) trials found the costs of running […]
Ministers have only made a tiny dent in the number of disabled people waiting for a decision on their Access to Work claim in the last year, new figures have revealed. Unpublished figures released to Disability News Service (DNS) show there […]
The four most senior members of the royal family are refusing to release details of how many disabled people they employ across their two households. Both Buckingham Palace, headed by the king and queen, and Kensington Palace, headed by the prince […]