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Access to Work cuts risk ‘decimating’ disability arts movement, disabled artists and consultants warn

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Employment

Access to Work cuts risk ‘decimating’ disability arts movement, disabled artists and consultants warn
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Cuts and reforms to the Access to Work system pose an “existential threat” and risk “decimating” the disability arts movement in Britain, disabled artists, companies and consultants are warning this week. As pressure grows on the Labour government over its Pathways […]

‘Access to Work showed me a working life was still possible… now Keir Starmer has put that at risk’

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Employment

‘Access to Work showed me a working life was still possible… now Keir Starmer has put that at risk’
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A leading disabled artist has been forced to stop working by “devastating” and “destructive” cuts to the Labour government’s Access to Work disability employment programme. Jess Thom (pictured this week) has had to halt her work with Touretteshero after AtW cut […]

Disabled artists ‘facing Access to Work cuts, backlogs and inflexibility’

By John Pring on 17th October 2024 Category: Employment

Disabled artists ‘facing Access to Work cuts, backlogs and inflexibility’
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Disabled people working in the creative and cultural sectors are increasingly seeing cuts to the support they receive through the Access to Work (AtW) scheme, campaigners have warned. Disabled artists have reported payments being stopped, cut or suspended by the Department […]

‘Outrage’ at Globe’s decision to cast non-disabled actor as Richard III

By John Pring on 1st February 2024 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

‘Outrage’ at Globe’s decision to cast non-disabled actor as Richard III
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Disabled members of the theatre and arts communities have told a London theatre they are “outraged and disappointed” by its decision to cast an actor without a physical impairment in the role of Shakespeare’s Richard III. They have described the decision […]

Disabled-led arts organisations welcome funding, but Arts Council admits it must do more

By John Pring on 10th November 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disabled-led arts organisations welcome funding, but Arts Council admits it must do more
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Disabled-led arts organisations have welcomed millions of pounds in annual funding awarded by the Arts Council, although new figures suggest that progress in expanding investment may have stalled. Arts Council England (ACE) has awarded funding to 32 disabled-led organisations, with the […]

Government has shown disabled people ‘active contempt’ during pandemic, festival hears

By John Pring on 21st October 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Government has shown disabled people ‘active contempt’ during pandemic, festival hears
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The pandemic has seen a “deliberate marginalisation” of disabled people by a UK government that has shown them “active contempt”, a leading disabled artist-activist has told a festival. Jess Thom told the disabled-led Neurostages arts festival in Glasgow that many of […]

Coronavirus: Disabled workers raise concerns over Access to Work

By John Pring on 2nd April 2020 Category: Employment

Coronavirus: Disabled workers raise concerns over Access to Work
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Disabled people are raising concerns about the way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is running its Access to Work disability employment scheme during the coronavirus crisis. The scheme – which funds support such as personal assistants, travel costs and […]

Thom marks 10 Touretteshero years by looking outwards, despite austerity

By John Pring on 6th February 2020 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Thom marks 10 Touretteshero years by looking outwards, despite austerity
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It began with “a simple desire to reclaim the laughter associated with Tourettes Syndrome”, but as an activist-art project celebrates its 10th anniversary, its co-founder believes that a decade of government austerity has left her career more precarious than ever. The […]

Disappointment at mayor’s scaled-back plans for Liberty arts festival

By John Pring on 17th October 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disappointment at mayor’s scaled-back plans for Liberty arts festival
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Disabled artists have expressed disappointment at the mayor of London’s scaled-back plans for the capital’s annual disability arts festival, which has continued to shrink in size since its heyday in the mid-2000s. Liberty was originally launched by Ken Livingstone in 2003 […]

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