Did you know? Austerity hitting disabled people hardest? While austerity policies may well be shown to have been at least part of the answer to the financial crisis over the last few years, the evidence provided in the recent Dignity…
Did you know? Employment and Support Allowance is failing disabled people and their desire to work: DWP shoots self in foot. There was quite a flurry in the media this week about the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on…
Did you know? Contractors funded to run the Government’s compulsory community work seem to be passing the buck to volunteer organisations. When unemployed people complete two years on the Work Programme without getting back to employment, they are put on…
Did you know? UK Government wants more people to work until age 67. Medical retirement” with the onset of ill-health or disability can seem the safe choice when life is looking bleak. But the longer term consequences can out-weigh any…
Did you know? There’s funding available that can make work possible for disabled people. I’ve just reviewed an RNIB report (Blind and partially sighted people of working age) that, amongst other things, says that blind and partially sighted people are…
Did you know? Parliament is checking on the funding that helps people with health conditions/disabilities to work. I’ve just sent in comments for Parliament’s Work and Pensions Select Committee for their inquiry in to Access To Work support. This is…
Did you know? Disabled people don’t have to be “registered”. Disability is twice as prevalent amongst prisoners as others. Registration. The concept of being “registered disabled” still perpetuates despite being misleading. Nowadays, some, and certainly not all, disabled people themselves…
There are more disabled people claiming out-of-work benefits than any other group. I discovered this weekend that talking about “Glasto” seems to be the way to show one is cool and in touch with the music festival scene. Clearly I’m…
Nearly 1 in 5 people have a long-term health condition or disability. I’m rather struggling to get a grip of “social media” – so much is not readily accessible with a screen reader so it’s difficult to have that spontaneity…
Welcome I had over 20 great years in the Royal Navy doing loads of different things: from photos with a dead turkey (public relations in the Ministry of Defence!) to intelligence flights over the Mediterranean. Nearly everyone was hugely helpful…
