Justin Tomlinson

Benefits and Poverty

February 1, 2018 0

DWP breaks promise again to stop harassing abuse survivor over benefit claim

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has again broken its promise to stop harassing a traumatised benefit claimant while he waits to give vital evidence in a child abuse trial. Disability News Service (DNS) has been reporting on the continuing harassment of David* by DWP since 2016, when former minister for disabled people

Benefits and Poverty

August 17, 2017 0

DWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its promises not to harass a traumatised benefit claimant while he waits to give vital evidence in a child abuse trial. Last year, DWP publicly apologised – although not directly to David* – after repeatedly contacting him about his claim for personal independence payment (PIP),

Employment

November 24, 2016

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It’s official: Ministers have abandoned their disability employment gap target

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A Labour MP has proved that the government has abandoned a target it set to halve the disability employment gap by 2020. The promise, included in last year’s general election manifesto, said a Conservative government would “aim to halve the disability employment gap” in the next parliament. A month after the party’s election victory,

Employment

July 28, 2016

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Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’

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Disabled campaigners have given mixed reviews to a new version of the government’s Disability Confident employment scheme, with one saying he was “genuinely shocked” by how weak it was. Disability Confident – which has urged employers to “see the ability, not the disability” – has attracted criticism since its launch three years ago for

Human Rights

Baroness Campbell speaking in the House of Lords

July 14, 2016

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Government’s response to Equality Act report is ‘disgusting travesty’

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The government’s response to a major House of Lords inquiry into the impact of the Equality Act on disabled people – in which it appears to have accepted just eight of 55 recommendations – has been branded a “wasted opportunity”. The crossbench disabled peer Baroness [Jane] Campbell (pictured) who was a member of the

Activism and Campaigning

July 7, 2016

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‘Single theme’ decision of government’s Action Alliance ‘feels like a cop-out’

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A disabled-led network set up by the minister for disabled people in 2012 to offer the government advice on the implementation of its disability policies has cut the areas it focuses on to just one “strategic theme”. Esther McVey, then the minister for disabled people, promised when it was launched that the Disability Action

Benefits and Poverty

June 30, 2016

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DWP piles WCA demand onto ‘humiliated’ abuse survivor

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A government contractor has told a traumatised abuse survivor he must be reassessed for employment and support allowance (ESA), just a week after a minister faced a call to resign for threatening to stop another of his disability benefits. Justin Tomlinson, the minister for disabled people, caused outrage last week after it emerged that

Employment

Stephen Crabb giving evidence to a Commons committee

June 30, 2016

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Crabb scrapped IDS’s white paper because he ‘didn’t like the look of it’

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The new work and pensions secretary scrapped the disability and employment white paper prepared by his predecessor Iain Duncan Smith because he “didn’t like the look” of it, a Tory MP has told a parliamentary meeting. The new work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb (pictured) had previously said that he wanted to “take a

Benefits and Poverty

June 30, 2016

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Tomlinson admits to ignorance about biopsychosocial model

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The minister for disabled people has admitted to complete ignorance about the model that lies at the heart of his government’s programme of disability benefit reforms. Justin Tomlinson (pictured) was asked what his thoughts were about the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability in a question-and-answer session at a meeting of the all-party parliamentary disability

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