The government is facing fresh criticism over the failure of its Work Programme to find jobs for unemployed disabled people.
In the same week that a BBC documentary suggested the coalition’s programme was failing, new government figures appeared to show the effectiveness of investing heavily in personalised employment support for disabled people.
Department for Work and Pensions [...]
Plans to remove all government funding from Remploy’s sheltered factories could leave just three of them operating in the private sector or as social enterprises, with the loss of hundreds more jobs.
Only four years ago, there were 83 factories spread across the UK, but Remploy announced today that staff at nearly all of those still [...]
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