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Disabled activists back call for action on disability pay gap

By John Pring on 7th November 2019 Category: Employment

Disabled activists back call for action on disability pay gap
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Disabled people will effectively work for free for the last 57 days of this year because of the huge gap between their earnings and those of non-disabled employees, new TUC research has shown. Disabled activists this week backed the TUC call […]

Mystery over sudden leap in number of disabled people working at DWP

By John Pring on 31st October 2019 Category: Employment

Mystery over sudden leap in number of disabled people working at DWP
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The number of disabled people working in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has apparently leapt by nearly 50 per cent in just one year. The figures were published this month, as part of an annual report on Civil Service […]

‘Dismal’ job figures show failure of Disability Confident, says de Cordova

By John Pring on 10th October 2019 Category: Employment

‘Dismal’ job figures show failure of Disability Confident, says de Cordova
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The government’s much-criticised Disability Confident jobs scheme appears to be growing increasingly less successful at persuading employers to offer jobs to disabled people, according to new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures. The figures, secured by Disability News Service (DNS) […]

Mystery over sharp drop in disabled people’s unemployment rate

By John Pring on 15th August 2019 Category: Employment

Mystery over sharp drop in disabled people’s unemployment rate
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Striking – but unexplained – new official figures show there has been a large fall over the last year in the proportion of disabled people who are unemployed. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that the percentage of disabled […]

Record number of disabled people receive support from Access to Work

By John Pring on 8th August 2019 Category: Employment

Record number of disabled people receive support from Access to Work
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A record number of disabled people received employment-related support through the government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme last year, new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures have revealed. It is also the first time that spending on AtW has exceeded […]

DWP defends first Work and Health Programme job figures

By John Pring on 6th June 2019 Category: Employment

DWP defends first Work and Health Programme job figures
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Only about one in five of the disabled and other unemployed people receiving support from the government’s new work programme have so far secured a “job outcome”, according to official statistics. It is the first time the Department for Work and […]

New DWP employment scheme could support 10,000 disabled people

By John Pring on 13th December 2018 Category: Employment

New DWP employment scheme could support 10,000 disabled people
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The new work and pensions secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced details of a new voluntary programme for disabled people who are long-term unemployed. The programme aims to provide “highly personalised packages of employment support for people who are at least a […]

Duncan Smith refuses to apologise over ‘exploitative’ comments

By John Pring on 25th October 2018 Category: Employment

Duncan Smith refuses to apologise over ‘exploitative’ comments
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The architect of many of the government’s most unpopular and flawed welfare reforms, Iain Duncan Smith, has refused to apologise for “exploitative” comments he made about disabled people and employment. The former work and pensions secretary (pictured) is reported to have […]

DWP faces nearly 60 disability discrimination tribunal cases in 20 months

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Employment

DWP faces nearly 60 disability discrimination tribunal cases in 20 months
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The Employment Tribunal has dealt with almost 60 claims of disability discrimination taken against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by its own staff over a 20-month period, new research has shown. A database on the Employment Tribunal website shows […]

Labour conference: De Cordova calls for a ‘Labour alternative’ to universal credit

By John Pring on 27th September 2018 Category: Politics

Labour conference: De Cordova calls for a ‘Labour alternative’ to universal credit
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Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has called on her party to come up with its own alternative to the government’s flawed universal credit benefit system. Marsha de Cordova (pictured) moved further this week than any of her shadow frontbench colleagues […]

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