Daily Archives: 09/10/2011

Labour conference: Party ‘blocked attempts to debate work tests’

Labour has been accused of blocking attempts at its party conference to discuss the problems caused by the government’s controversial “fitness for work” tests.
Following successful moves by Liberal Democrat campaigners at their conference last week to overturn their party’s policy on incapacity benefit reform and the work capability assessment (WCA), disabled activists had hoped for [...]

Labour conference: Shadow minister calls for action on harassment

A shadow minister has backed calls by disabled activists for new measures to tackle the harassment of disabled people.
Fiona Mactaggart, Labour’s shadow equalities minister, spoke out following the publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) major report into disability-related harassment.
She told Disability News Service that addressing the problem of “bullying and harassment” had [...]