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Employment

April 19, 2018 0

Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’

Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new Work and Health Programme must promise to “pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” of work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, official documents suggest. The charities, and other organisations, must also promise never to do anything that harms the public’s confidence

Employment

April 12, 2018 0

Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

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Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme could be at risk of losing their jobs because the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to refuse to renew a three-year funding agreement. The funding was awarded to Remploy in 2015 for its Interwork scheme, which was set up in

Employment

January 25, 2018 0

DWP refuses to name charities set to earn millions from new disability jobs scheme

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The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to name the charities and other organisations being paid millions of pounds to help deliver its new disability employment programme across England and Wales. All six of the new Work and Health Programme contracts went “live” last week, and DWP announced the main contractors in October.

Independent Living

October 19, 2017 0

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

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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

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