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Politics

Marsha de Cordova speaking in parliament

May 31, 2018 0

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Government ‘has created hostile environment for disabled people’

The government has created a “hostile environment” for disabled people just as it has for members of the Windrush generation, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has told trade unionists. Marsha de Cordova (pictured) described herself as a “grand-daughter of the Windrush generation” as she addressed the annual TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference in Bournemouth.

Human Rights

Delegates at the disabled workers' conference

May 31, 2018 0

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: UN convention ‘must become part of UK law’

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Disabled trade unionists have called on the TUC and unions across the country to campaign for the UN disability convention to be incorporated into UK law. Disabled members of 22 unions, who were at the annual TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference in Bournemouth (pictured), voted unanimously for a motion calling for a national campaign on

Human Rights

May 24, 2018 0

Office for Disability Issues staff levels have plummeted since 2010, DWP admits

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The number of staff working in the government’s Office for Disability Issues (ODI) has plummeted by more than two-thirds under the coalition and Conservative governments, new figures released under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed. In March 2010, just before the Tory-led coalition came to power, there were the equivalent of 48 full-time

Politics

Penny Mordaunt speaking in the House of Commons

May 17, 2018 0

Information commissioner ‘most concerned’ about DWP’s ‘foreign advice’ replies

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised by the information commissioner over the way it dealt with a request to reveal the identities of seven foreign governments that asked for advice on disability reform. After facing a probe by the commissioner into its refusal to release the information, DWP is now

Activism and Campaigning

May 17, 2018 0

WOW Campaign is back, and pushing for a second House of Commons debate

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Disabled campaigners are relaunching the WOW Campaign in a bid to secure a debate in the House of Commons on the need for the government to assess the financial damage caused to disabled people through its cuts and reforms. Four years ago, nearly 105,000 people signed a petition launched by the WOW Campaign that

Human Rights

May 3, 2018 0

Mental Health Act review ‘is just tinkering around the edges’ of reform

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Mental health survivors and service-users have been left “underwhelmed” by the interim report of a review into mental health legislation in England and Wales ordered by the prime minister. One campaigner said it was clear that the review – chaired by Professor Simon Wessely –was “tinkering around the edges” of the Mental Health Act

Human Rights

May 3, 2018 0

Government refuses to say what has happened to its disability strategy

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to say what has happened to its cross-government disability strategy, following the release of new material under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA). Despite repeated requests for the department to clarify whether it currently has a disability strategy, it has refused to do so. The

Politics

April 12, 2018 0

Network neglect leaves government ‘closer to coercion than co-production’

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The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging blow, after it admitted that none of the bodies it set up to engage with disabled people and their organisations as part of its disability strategy has met in nearly a year. The Fulfilling Potential Forum, set up “to discuss how disabled people

Politics

March 22, 2018 0

Scrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’

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The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy – which was aimed at “improving the lives of disabled people” – and abandoned any idea of replacing it. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) yesterday refused to say what had happened to a review of its Fulfilling Potential strategy, which was announced

Benefits and Poverty

A sign pointing to Parliament Street and Whitehall

March 15, 2018 0

Eight years of benefit cuts ‘will cost some disabled lone parents £11,000 a year’

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Some disabled lone parents will eventually lose more than 30 per cent of their income – more than £11,000 a year – as a result of eight years of government social security cuts, according to new research for the equality watchdog. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report examines the “cumulative impact” of

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