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DWP reports suggest Work Programme has failed disabled people

07/12/2012 – 3:00 pm

Major questions have been raised over the government’s plans to support disabled people into work, after two long-awaited reports showed only about 1,000 claimants of disability benefits found work through the scheme in its first year.
The first Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report shows that about 79,000 ESA claimants passed through the Work Programme [...]

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Parties unite to tackle ‘last legal form of discrimination’

28/09/2012 – 11:14 am

Both the government and opposition have backed a bill that would scrap laws that discriminate against people with mental health conditions in business and public life.
The mental health (discrimination) bill would overturn discriminatory mental health legislation affecting MPs, school governors, company directors and would-be jury members.
The bill received its second Commons reading on Friday (14 [...]

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