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A new government white paper has promised a “fundamentally different” approach to employment support, including “tackling ill health as the biggest driver of inactivity”, but it has left critical questions unanswered about Labour’s plans for disability benefits. Disabled people and their […]
Disabled activists are to hold a protest about a new government scheme that will see mental health therapists installed in a south London jobcentre. Members of the Mental Health Resistance Network (MHRN) are also furious that a new “Living Well Hub”, […]
New moves to scrap the role of specialist disability employment advisers (DEAs) in some jobcentres risk “dismantling” the support available to help disabled people into work, campaigners fear. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) confirmed this week that a pilot […]
A judge has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that part of the agreement signed by out-of-work benefit claimants does not comply with the law, following a legal challenge from a disabled job-seeker. The comments by Judge Christopher Ward […]