Happy New Year to you
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
08/01/2016
Blog & Articles of Interest
Government policies impact on disability employment
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
30/01/2015
Benefit claimants de-humanised
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
30/01/2015
Abandoned unemployed
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
30/01/2015
Inaccessible health care penalises disabled people
Did you know? Inaccessible health care probably causes long-term health problems for some disabled people. Cross Country Trains abdicate responsibility for disabled passenger. I talked
30/01/2015
Misery of blindness
Did you know? How devastating it can be to be blind when things go wrong? Free smoke alarms aren’t all they’re cracked up to be?
30/01/2015
Social security more difficult than it’s worth
Did you know? Eligible people are still not taking up their benefit entitlements. I’ve written previously about the large numbers of people who are not
30/01/2015
Worse health prospects for visual/hearing impaired
Did you know? I’m much more likely to get dementia or Alzheimer’s disease due to my blindness. Mental health treatment is vital to reduce lost
30/01/2015
Disabled people get worse employment support.
Did you know? It’s really obvious: One size doesn’t fit all when helping people back to work and disabled people fare worse. It’s no surprise
30/01/2015