Improving Lives

Employment

Philip Connolly speaking at a conference

March 1, 2018 0

Absence of stats ‘is killer blow to government’s disability employment pledge’

The failure to provide up-to-date figures showing how many disabled people are in work is a “killer blow” to the government’s pledge to move one million more disabled people into work by 2027, say campaigners. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has failed to publish figures on how many disabled people were in employment

Employment

Sarah Newton speaking in the House of Commons

January 18, 2018 0

Newton dodges questions on government’s disability record by pulling out of meeting

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The minister for disabled people pulled out of a meeting with MPs, peers and disabled campaigners, days after agreeing to be questioned about her government’s disability employment strategy. Sarah Newton had promised to attend this week’s meeting of the all-party parliamentary group for disability (APPGD) to discuss Improving Lives, her government’s new work, health

Employment

Hundreds of white flowers lying on grass

December 7, 2017 0

Improving Lives: Fears over strategy’s ‘unacceptable’ work and health links

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The government’s “cruel” and “unacceptable” emphasis on linking health and job outcomes in its new work, health and disability strategy will have a significant negative impact on people in mental distress, say campaigners and experts. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department of Health released their joint 10-year Improving Lives strategy

Employment

December 7, 2017 0

Improving Lives: Ministers back down on ‘mandatory’ activity for ESA support group

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Ministers have backed down – at least temporarily – from plans to force all sick and disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits to take part in compulsory work-related activity. There was an outcry among disabled campaigners last year when the government’s work, health and disability green paper suggested that claimants of employment and support

Employment

December 7, 2017 0

Improving Lives: Government considers financial incentives for employers

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The government is considering offering financial incentives to employers to persuade them to recruit more disabled employees, as part of a 10-year strategy to secure jobs for one million more disabled people by 2027. The long-awaited Improving Lives strategy includes proposals across social security, the workplace and healthcare, in response to a consultation that

Employment

A sign pointing to Parliament Street and Whitehall

March 2, 2017

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Green paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO

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The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability benefits assessments with an in-house system – based on the social model – that understands the barriers faced by Deaf and disabled people, according to a disabled people’s organisation. Inclusion London said the government’s Improving Lives green paper on work, health and disability had

Employment

Rhian Davies speaking at a lectern, with a BSL interpreter beside her

March 2, 2017

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No chance of halving employment gap without tackling independent living, says DPO

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The UK government will not be able to achieve its aim of halving the disability employment gap because of its failure to address the “crucial” issue of independent living, according to a national disabled people’s organisation. In its response to the government’s Improving Lives green paper on work, health and disability, Disability Wales (DW)

Employment

Sign at entrance to Department for Work and Pensions

February 16, 2017

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Spartacus exposes work and health green paper ‘smokescreen’

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Campaigners have published a withering 237-page attack on the government’s work, health and disability green paper, accusing ministers of creating a “smokescreen” to disguise their intention to cut support and force sick and disabled people into inappropriate work. The response from the Spartacus Network of disabled campaigners has been submitted to the Department for

Employment

November 10, 2016

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‘Devastating’, ‘unethical’, ‘cruel’… disabled people react to green paper

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Disabled people and other campaigners have reacted with shock, anger and concern to government proposals to consider forcing all sick and disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits to take part in “mandatory” activity. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last week that the new work, health and disability green paper suggests that all claimants of

Benefits and Poverty

November 3, 2016

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Ministers set to force work-related activity on everyone in ESA support group

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The Department for Work and Pensions is considering forcing all sick and disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits to take part in “mandatory” activity, its new green paper has revealed. The suggestion of compulsory activity is revealed in a single line of the 92-page work, health and disability green paper, published this week. Such

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