What do you think: Is ill-health/disability the biggest barrier to full employment? Or is it employer discrimination? Or the lack of a cohesive and comprehensive disability employment strategy and the tools to deliver it? According to the Resolution Foundation’s recent…
What do you think: Is social media a good way of gaining information about deprived people? If you want to improve a service, do you start with the customers or the process? Is the rug being pulled from the majority…
What do you think? Does contracting out improve the services we get? Is the privatisation track record good enough? Would true market forces have most impact on quality, service and savings? It’s not surprising that there’s lots of concern about…
Did you know: Government planning to tighten up on PIP for those who rely on aids and equipment? “Daily living” for disabled people is reduced to basic survival? Policy changes need to be based on good evidence? The UK Government…
What do you think: Is your business modern with ambitions for growth? Active and assertive business or passive and reactive? Want the business benefits of equality and diversity? Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are usually defined as employing 1-249 people…
What do you think? Over a third of SMEs will discriminate against disabled people in recruitment? SMEs think they know about equality employment law – but don’t? Don’t fill in monitoring forms unless employers prove how they use them? About…
What do you think? Small and medium businesses interested in hanging on to people with health issues? Got any examples of SMEs who are great employers of disabled people? Blind pewterer? After a very quiet Christmas remembering my mother who…
Did you know? •Autumn Statement may impact self-employed disabled people. •Access To Work support workers may be exempt from employers’ National Insurance contributions. •Government taking more notice of mental health issues – but perhaps not enough in relation to work?…
Did you know? Society’s attitudes and the benefits system are vilifying, de-humanising and not helping the most vulnerable people. Getting permanently “signed off” work with a sick note can seem great at the time when you are struggling with the…
Do you know? How are we going to resolve the ever-increasing number of people abandoned by the labour market and benefits system? The November employment figures show that there has been a further improvement in the number of people in…
