Findings could spell the closure of the remaining sheltered factories run by Remploy state agency … Continue reading
Month: June 2011
National springtime total of 26,400 people needing local authority housing is rise of 23% on last year … Continue reading
Actions of police who broke disabled pensioner’s 4×4 window ‘justified’
TWO police officers who smashed a pensioner’s car window after pulling him over for not wearing a seatbelt have been
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Archbishop ‘free to express politics views’, but PM profoundly disagrees with his views on debt, welfare and education … Continue reading
Prime minister rejects claim by Rowan Williams that the coalition is forcing through ‘radical policies for which no one voted’ … Continue reading
The message Rowan Williams was trying to get across in his New Statesman editorial has been lost among the soundbites … Continue reading
Redrawn counter-terrorism programme will call on doctors’ help, but BMA fears threat to patient confidentiality … Continue reading
LiMA v2 Technical Manual – Download
Click on the link below to download the technical manual for the LiMA v2 Software System, the software Atos use
Report of the Atos Recruitment Evening Picket Glasgow
Over a period of 2 1/2 hours on Monday 6th June around 50 people joined the picket, called by the
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Work Capability Assessment independent review
The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) was introduced in October 2008 to assess entitlement to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Section
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Kettling of children at tuition fees protest Challenged
Three north London schoolchildren are challenging the Metropolitan Police’s decision to ‘kettle’ pupils during the tuition fees protests in Whitehall.
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Successful challenge of closure of legal advice centres in Birmingham
Recent court cases have revealed the important role of equality duties can play in challenging decisions to cut public sector
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COUNSELS OPINION – WORK-FOR-BENEFIT SCHEMES UNLAWFUL AS FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOUR, CONTRARY TO ECHR ARTICLE 4
1. Submitted, the implementation of a work-for-benefit scheme is a violation of the right not to be subjected to forced
Human cost of welfare reform
The scandal is that no one is prepared to make a moral case. Who will stand up for the
Public & Commercial Services Union – Welfare Reform
PCS has launched a pamphlet on the need to defend and strengthen the welfare state. The 24-page booklet was unveiled at
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The writer tells Zoe Williams how the care home where she lives in puts propriety before profit … Continue reading
This travesty of care shames us all
I BET many readers are currently involved in caring for an elderly parent, or have recent memories of its abject
UNUM Is Still Doing It To the Disabled
UNUMProvident is the gigantic disability insurance company that operates in both the US and the UK. In UK it advises
The comments about my case against the police for pulling me out of my wheelchair expose an ugly underbelly of society … Continue reading
Revealed – The Tory Plan to Privatise the NHS
In 1988 two radical Conservatives wrote a pamphlet for the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank called ‘Britain’s Biggest Enterprise: ideas
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