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A young wheelchair-user sits smiling at an office desk

July 13, 2017 0

Inclusion London set to test social model job support, after £775k grant

A pan-London disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has been given the chance to test “exciting” and “important” approaches to supporting young disabled people into work that reflect the social model of disability, after securing more than £750,000 in funding. Inclusion London has been awarded £775,000 over five years by the City Bridge Trust, which funds

Benefits and Poverty

October 27, 2016

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‘Grave concern’ over coroner’s refusal to hold inquest into Maximus WRAG death

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A coroner has refused to hold an inquest into the death of a disabled man who had a fatal heart attack an hour after being told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was threatening to stop his benefits. Alan McArdle, who had previously been homeless but was living in council accommodation in Slough,

Employment

June 2, 2016

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Employment support overhaul is vital, says new report

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The government must work closely with disabled people and user-led organisations to rebuild trust damaged by the flawed work capability assessment (WCA) if it wants to improve its failing welfare-to-work programmes, according to a new report. The report by The Work Foundation, part of Lancaster University, calls for an overhaul of the employment support

Benefits and Poverty

A wheelchair-user sits in front of a stage, while the grass is covered by white flowers

November 13, 2015

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Disabled man died of heart attack after being told of ESA sanction threat

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A disabled man died of a heart attack, just an hour after being told that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was threatening to stop paying his out-of-work disability benefits. Alan McArdle (pictured), who had previously been homeless but was living in council accommodation in Slough with the support of a charity, told

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Outside view of the Houses of Parliament

October 23, 2015

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MPs ‘have missed the real flaws of Work Choice’

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A disabled researcher and campaigner has criticised a new report by a cross-party committee of MPs for failing to acknowledge fully the “perverse contradiction” at the heart of the government’s specialist employment programme. Catherine Hale, who wrote a well-received review on the failure of the employment and support allowance (ESA) system to increase the number of

Employment

Jenny Nedwell sitting in restaurant with guide dog

October 2, 2015

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Labour conference: Work Programme ‘lacks common sense on mental health’

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People with mental health conditions are being forced too soon into work that they are not ready to do, according to a disabled Labour councillor employed by one of the government’s Work Programme providers. Jenny Nedwell (pictured) a Labour councillor with Hyndburn council in east Lancashire, told a fringe meeting organised by the Employment

Benefits and Poverty

June 5, 2015

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DWP is ‘taking baby steps’ on sanctions when regime ‘is costing lives’

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Companies delivering the government’s Work Programme appear to have ignored rules that protect disabled people from serious harm, forcing the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish new guidance on its benefit sanctions regime. DWP has accused providers of an “inconsistent approach” to ensuring the safety of “vulnerable” people who breach strict rules

Benefits and Poverty

December 19, 2014 0

Work Programme provider A4E ‘put lives at risk’ with cost-cutting move

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One of the companies at the heart of the government’s welfare-to-work programme is facing allegations that it introduced an “incredibly dangerous” cost-cutting move that could put the lives of many disabled benefit claimants at risk. Earlier this year A4E allegedly introduced a new policy that forced advisers with no specialist training or experience to

Employment

November 7, 2014 0

Work Programme failure to help disabled people ‘is a scandal’

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The failure of Work Programme contractors to provide enough employment support to disabled people and other “harder-to-help” benefit claimants is “a scandal”, according to the chair of an influential committee of MPs. Labour MP Margaret Hodge said the government’s decision to pay companies more if they found jobs for those further away from the

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