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Access to Work waiting-list climbs again, despite DWP claims

By John Pring on 29th February 2024 Category: Employment

Access to Work waiting-list climbs again, despite DWP claims
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The number of disabled people waiting for a decision on their Access to Work (AtW) claim has continued to rise, six months after the government insisted it had improved the system and was hiring extra staff. The Department for Work and […]

Labour calls for urgent probe into ‘devastating’ DWP dossier

By John Pring on 14th December 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour calls for urgent probe into ‘devastating’ DWP dossier
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Labour has called for an urgent government investigation into a “devastating” dossier of evidence that suggests the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “in a state of crisis” and faces a “near collapse” of its benefits system. Evidence submitted to […]

Anger over Labour’s ‘shameful’ silence on universal credit’s ‘deadly faults’

By John Pring on 30th November 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Anger over Labour’s ‘shameful’ silence on universal credit’s ‘deadly faults’
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Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has angered activists after failing to express concern about safeguarding flaws at the heart of the universal credit system, including a suicide linked by a coroner to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Vicky […]

King’s speech ‘shows a government failing to prioritise disabled people’

By John Pring on 9th November 2023 Category: Politics

King’s speech ‘shows a government failing to prioritise disabled people’
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The government has failed to include any proposals to address the inequality faced by disabled people in its list of legislation that it plans to introduce over the next year. In what is likely to be the last king’s speech before […]

Labour ignored safety concerns ‘for two years’ before near-miss on conference ramp

By John Pring on 12th October 2023 Category: Politics

Labour ignored safety concerns ‘for two years’ before near-miss on conference ramp
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A wheelchair-user could easily have lost his life in front of hundreds of delegates to the Labour conference, after the party ignored years of safety warnings about the ramp used to access the speakers’ platform, say disabled activists. There was an […]

Labour pledges to scrap Tory plans to tighten ‘fitness for work’ test

By John Pring on 12th October 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour pledges to scrap Tory plans to tighten ‘fitness for work’ test
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Labour has pledged to scrap Conservative plans to tighten the work capability assessment – reforms described by disabled activists as “cynical” and “horrendously dangerous” – if it wins power at the next election. Although Labour offered almost no information at its […]

Labour admits dropping disability rights pledge from policy plan

By John Pring on 12th October 2023 Category: Human Rights

Labour admits dropping disability rights pledge from policy plan
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Labour has finally admitted that it is not currently planning to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) into UK law if it wins power at the next general election. The admission was made by the […]

All our ministers will be ministers for disabled people, Labour pledges

By John Pring on 12th October 2023 Category: Politics

All our ministers will be ministers for disabled people, Labour pledges
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Labour has promised to govern by co-producing its policies with disabled people, if it wins the next general election. Following criticism of the party’s decision to leave out key disability rights policies from the report that will form the core of […]

Anger as Labour omits ‘vital’ promise on disability rights from policy document

By John Pring on 21st September 2023 Category: Politics

Anger as Labour omits ‘vital’ promise on disability rights from policy document
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Labour has broken its promise to implement the UN disability convention into UK law if it wins the next general election, according to confidential party policy documents. The party was insisting until at least July this year that a Labour government […]

Labour has ‘caved in to vested interests’ on social care, leaked documents show

By John Pring on 21st September 2023 Category: Politics

Labour has ‘caved in to vested interests’ on social care, leaked documents show
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Labour has been accused of caving in to “powerful vested interests” after failing to include any reference to scrapping care charges in documents that will form the basis of the party’s next general election manifesto. One leading disabled people’s organisation said […]

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