What do you think? Does contracting out improve the services we get? Is the privatisation track record good enough? Would true market forces have most impact on quality, service and savings? It’s not surprising that there’s lots of concern about…
Did you know: Government planning to tighten up on PIP for those who rely on aids and equipment? “Daily living” for disabled people is reduced to basic survival? Policy changes need to be based on good evidence? The UK Government…
What do you think: Is your business modern with ambitions for growth? Active and assertive business or passive and reactive? Want the business benefits of equality and diversity? Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are usually defined as employing 1-249 people…
What do you think? Over a third of SMEs will discriminate against disabled people in recruitment? SMEs think they know about equality employment law – but don’t? Don’t fill in monitoring forms unless employers prove how they use them? About…
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 employers of disabled people? Blind pewterer? After a very quiet Christmas remembering my mother who…
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 more notice of mental health issues – but perhaps not enough in relation to work?…
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 a sick note can seem great at the time when you are struggling with the…
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 figures show that there has been a further improvement in the number of people in…
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 about the Chief Medical Officer’s report a couple of weeks ago and how blind people…
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? Here’s a day in my life and what drives a normally competent and confident woman…
