Self-employment can provide choice and control for disabled people, MPs hear
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 Three disabled entrepreneurs have told MPs that the government should make it easier for people with impairments to move into self-employment....
View ArticleSpartacus exposes work and health green paper ‘smokescreen’
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th Frebruary 2017 Campaigners have published a withering 237-page attack on the government’s work, health and disability green paper, accusing ministers of...
View ArticleG4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies are set to win contracts under the government’s new programme...
View ArticleGreen paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability benefits assessments with an in-house system – based on the social...
View ArticleNo chance of halving employment gap without tackling independent living, says...
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The UK government will not be able to achieve its aim of halving the disability employment gap because of its failure to address the “crucial”...
View ArticleDisabled people ‘forced into dangerous workfare that breaches health and...
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 Disabled people are being subjected to dangerous violations of health and safety laws after being forced to take part in government workfare...
View Article#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to...
"I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government - and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all" ~ Surgeon Dr...
View ArticleDWP ‘manipulated Access to Work figures to hide cuts and harassment’
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of manipulating statistics in an attempt to hide the ongoing barriers, cuts and...
View ArticleDisabled people ‘will go into government alongside Labour’, says McDonnell
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 Disabled people and their organisations will “determine” and “implement” the disability policies of the next Labour government, the shadow...
View ArticleOBE for Access to Work boss is ‘further slap in the face’ for disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 Disabled campaigners have criticised the decision to award an OBE to the senior Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servant responsible for...
View ArticleAccess to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work (AtW) payments does not go far enough, and its “discriminatory” cap must be...
View ArticleResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoptionContinue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
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