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News round-up: Capita, basic income, immigration, arts diversity, UC… and Motability

By John Pring on 20th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

News round-up: Capita, basic income, immigration, arts diversity, UC… and Motability
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The performance of one of the government’s disability benefit assessment contractors has worsened over the last year and has remained well outside a government target it has never met, new figures have revealed. They show that the proportion of personal independence […]

Disabled talent calls on film industry to act now on disability

By John Pring on 6th February 2020 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disabled talent calls on film industry to act now on disability
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Leading actors and writers have called on the film-making industry to move far more quickly to improve access and opportunities for disabled talent. Among those calling for change was disabled BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne, who said the pace of change within […]

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 […]

Television industry must do more to employ disabled people, says Ofcom

By John Pring on 19th September 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Television industry must do more to employ disabled people, says Ofcom
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The television broadcasting industry needs to do more to increase the number of disabled people within its workforce, the regulator has warned, with new figures showing progress has stalled. In its third annual Diversity and Equal Opportunities in Television report, Ofcom […]

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders

By John Pring on 5th September 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders
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Disabled-led organisations have secured funding of more than £750,000 to develop three separate programmes that will aim to produce more disabled leaders in the arts. All three of the programmes receiving funding from Arts Council England (ACE) are headed by disabled-led […]

Some television companies say just one per cent of staff are disabled, says Ofcom

By John Pring on 21st September 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Some television companies say just one per cent of staff are disabled, says Ofcom
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As few as one per cent of the employees working for some UK broadcasters have described themselves as disabled people, according to new research by the industry regulator. Ofcom’s Diversity And Equal Opportunities In Television report says disabled people appear to […]

Lib Dem conference: Party picks first Westminster candidate from all-disabled shortlist

By John Pring on 22nd September 2016 Category: Politics

Lib Dem conference: Party picks first Westminster candidate from all-disabled shortlist
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The Liberal Democrats have become the first political party to pick a candidate to fight a parliamentary seat from a shortlist containing only disabled people. Former MP Stephen Lloyd, who lost his Eastbourne seat at the 2015 election by just 733 […]

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