Remploy

Independent Living

October 19, 2017 0

Remploy refuses to carry out basic background checks for care inspection roles

The company employed by the care watchdog to find service-users to help inspect residential homes and hospitals is failing to make the most basic background checks on its recruits, undercover journalists have discovered. The two reporters had been told of concerns about sloppy recruitment methods used by Remploy, the former government-run company now mostly

Employment

May 4, 2017

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Remploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections

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Disabled people helping to deliver a vital part of the care watchdog’s inspection programme were refused support workers, while one was bullied into resigning, documents obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) have revealed. The internal reports – finally released following a freedom of information request submitted last June – show the scale of concern

Employment

February 16, 2017

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G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme

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Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies are set to win contracts under the government’s new programme to find jobs for disabled people and other marginalised groups. The 11 organisations that have been successful in the bidding process will be allowed to tender for the back-to-work contracts that will be offered

Human Rights

Priti Patel speaking in the House of Commons

December 8, 2016

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‘Grave and systematic violations’ minister branded ‘offensive’ after UN rights pledge

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A minister partly responsible for the UK being found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of the UN disability convention has been branded “highly offensive” after announcing that her government would try to become a “world leader” on disability. Priti Patel (pictured) was employment minister for more than a year while the UN’s committee

Employment

Extract from membership list showing Boobylicious

November 10, 2016

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What do Remploy, Capita and Maximus have in common? They’re all Disability Confident

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A company that tried to halve its disabled advisors’ pay; a religious order responsible for decades of abuse of disabled people; and a police force facing two discrimination inquiries… are just three of the employers that have described themselves as “disability confident”. The trio are a sample of more than 2,400 organisations that have

Independent Living

July 28, 2016

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Maximus company ‘lied’ about user-involvement in inspection contracts

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A company controlled by the disgraced US outsourcing giant Maximus apparently lied when it promised that user-led organisations would help it deliver a vital part of the care watchdog’s inspection programme, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. Late last year, Remploy – the disability employment business formerly owned by the government but now mostly

Independent Living

June 2, 2016

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Cancelled inspections by care watchdog rise 360 per cent in one year

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The number of inspections by the social care regulator that are cancelled or rescheduled every month has risen by more than 360 per cent in just one year, the watchdog’s own figures have revealed. The figures – revealed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following a freedom of information request by Disability News Service

Employment

February 25, 2016

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Life under Maximus for CQC’s service-user experts: Chaos, cuts and ‘playschool ID cards’

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The care watchdog’s decision to ask a discredited US outsourcing giant to manage its disabled expert advisers has led to confusion, cutbacks and a stream of resignations, Disability News Service (DNS) has been told. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) decided earlier this month to pass three of four regional contracts to run the Experts

Activism and Campaigning

February 4, 2016

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Protesters to march on GP surgery over Maximus job coach project

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Disabled activists are to march on a surgery next month in protest at its involvement in a government scheme that is placing welfare-to-work advisors from a discredited US outsourcing giant in GP practices. Six surgeries in Islington, north London, are taking part in the year-long pilot scheme run and funded by the Department for

Employment

January 28, 2016

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Care watchdog to subsidise Maximus plans to halve pay of disabled experts

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The care watchdog wants to use government funds to subsidise a discredited US outsourcing giant’s plans to slash the pay of disabled expert advisors by more than half. Two of three new contracts to run the Experts by Experience (EbE) programme have been awarded to Remploy, the formerly government-owned disability employment business which is now

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