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6 days ago · Mental health bill ‘will not stop us being locked up’, say disabled activists. 7th November 2024. A long-awaited new mental health bill falls far short of the fundamental reforms needed to ensure full human rights for disabled people, and will not stop them being subjected to forcible detention and degrading treatment, activists have warned.
Access to Work spending doubles in seven years
5 days ago · By John Pring on 7th November 2024 Category: Employment. Spending on supporting disabled people in work through a disability employment scheme has more than doubled in real terms in the last seven years, new government figures have revealed. The new Access to Work statistics, published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), show the ...
Mounting evidence of assessment crisis, as DWP halts WCA …
6 days ago · Mounting evidence suggests a crisis within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) systems that assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits. Delays and backlogs across the assessment system have even led to DWP refusing to carry out any repeat work capability assessments (WCAs) for claimants already receiving universal credit ...
Half a million set to lose out when DWP scraps ‘fit for work’ test ...
6 days ago · More than half a million disabled people are set to lose out financially through controversial reforms to the disability benefit assessment system, government figures suggest. The Department for Wo…
Ministers could merge disability benefits and want to cut future ...
Ministers are considering measures to cut rising spending on disability benefits, and the possibility of merging personal independence payment with universal credit, a new government green paper ha…
Evidence mounts of disability benefits white paper’s fatal flaws
6 days ago · Evidence is mounting that government plans to reform the disability benefits system are fatally flawed. Last week’s Transforming Support white paper appears to be slowly unravelling, with a growing number of serious concerns being raised by disabled activists, politicians, charities and the main union representing Department for …
Fresh DWP fears after Kendall helps launch report that calls for …
6 days ago · Comments by new work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, and her support for a controversial report, suggest she wants to increase pressure on disabled people to move off benefits and into work, while disregarding risks to their health.
Disability strategy is unlawful, court confirms… and denies DWP ...
6 days ago · The government has been denied permission to appeal against a court ruling that its entire disability strategy is unlawful, and not just the botched national consultation ministers carried out last year while they were preparing the document.
Access to Work in crisis as figures show ‘massive’ waiting-list
6 days ago · The government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme is in crisis, with new figures showing the number of disabled people waiting for decisions on their applications has more than quadrupled in a year. By 22 March, there were 20,909 disabled people waiting for a decision on their claim for support through the disability employment programme, compared ...
Thousands of disabled people tell government of day-to-day …
Oct 31, 2024 · Listen. Thousands of disabled people have told ministers of the significant barriers they face in their daily lives, with only four per cent saying they believe the government provides a “good level of support” to disabled people. A report on the results of the Disability Unit’s UK Disability Survey has analysed the responses of nearly ...