A national disabled people’s organisation is to provide disability equality training workshops to staff from the controversial US-owned company that won the government contract to assess people’s “fitness for work”. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) will provide training to about 1 […]
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DRILL ‘could help fight back against impact of austerity on independent living’
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Fresh concerns over transition from ILF closure
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Budget: Chancellor’s WRAG decision is ‘misguided’ and ‘cruel’
Budget: Osborne scraps WRAG as part of £13 billion-a-year benefit cuts
The government is to slash financial support for hundreds of thousands of disabled people on out-of-work benefits, as part of measures that will cut £13 billion-a-year from the social security budget by 2020-21. The chancellor, George Osborne (pictured), announced in yesterday’s […]