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Workfare Isn't Working So Grayling Plans More Workfare - This Time It's For Charity14 comments

johnny void wrote 6 hours ago: Chris Grayling is once again depending on charities to prop up his Government’s exploitative a … more →

Tags: Chris Grayling, Mandatory Work Activity, /work programme, Workfare

Government Response to Human Rights Committee on Independent Living and Disabled People1 comment

Steve wrote 7 hours ago: Please find embedded below the Coalition Governments response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights … more →

Tags: All, Benefits, Conservatives, disability, DLA, human rights, Legal, Letters, Lib Dems

BBC Responds To Social Welfare Union Supporter's Complaint3 comments

Steve wrote 1 day ago: A huge thank you to Moira Turner for sending us this. Thank you for contacting us. I understand that … more →

Tags: All, Benefits, Conservatives, disability, DLA, esa, guest blog, Letters, Lib Dems

Work Programme–Contract for ‘Grayling Buses’3 comments

soiniciulacht wrote 1 day ago: More details here: … more →

Tags: Fiction, Comment, Factual, benefits, Politics, Tories, Benefits, parody, Welfare Reform

DWP/AtoS JUDICIAL REVIEW ~ URGENT CALLOUT for Evidence ~ Mental Health Resistance Network

Steve wrote 2 days ago: Re-blogged from Social Welfare Union partners Black Triangle Campaign. .Members of the Mental Health … more →

Tags: All, Campaigns, atos, WCA, Politics, Benefits, esa, Partners, Legal

Systematic Fraud in Welfare-to-Work (A4E, Working Links): We Ask the Hard Questions.5 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 3 days ago: Grayling: Praying for a Miracle. “There’s no problem with fraud in A4E or elsewhere. I a … more →

Tags: A4E, Campaigns for Unemployed, Cuts, Fraud, Tories, TV Shows on Unemployed, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare State

Managing Customers Suicide and Self Harm Declarations – policy framework for managers

soiniciulacht wrote 3 days ago: Following the attitude displayed here (link) I thought the following might be informative after all … more →

Tags: Factual, Welfare Reform, news 2, Benefits

Who are the 78,780 Work Programme customers in London? Analysis of official stats

Steve LVSC wrote 4 days ago: On 9 May 2012, DWP published updated statistics on referrals to the Work Programme, showing that 519 … more →

Tags: /work programme

DWP announces successful Innovation Fund bids in London

Steve LVSC wrote 4 days ago: Two organisations have been announced as preferred bidders in London for Round One of DWP’s  I … more →

Tags: social enterprise, youth unemployment, NEETs

Week of Actions Against ATOS in Manchester2 comments

Steve wrote 4 days ago: Re-Blogged from Social Welfare Union partners Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) Stop ATOS! End Wor … more →

Tags: All, atos, Benefits, Campaigns, disability, DPAC, esa, Labour, Partners

'Billion-Pound Scandal’ in Welfare to Work1 comment

Steve wrote 4 days ago: When Emma Harrison, the founder of A4e, was appointed the Prime Minister’s “families tsar” in late 2 … more →

Tags: All, /work programme, A4E, Emma Harrison, Workfare, Politics, Conservatives, Benefits, esa

This is the Real Conservative Party4 comments

soiniciulacht wrote 5 days ago: I think this speaks for itself The following thread is based on the story of a severely disabled man … more →

Tags: Tories, Comment, benefits, Human Rights, Welfare Reform, Employment, Politics, Benefits, ethics

GPs Call For Work Capability Assessment To Be Scrapped3 comments

Steve wrote 5 days ago: GPs have voted unanimously in favour of scrapping the controversial work capability assessment, the … more →

Tags: All, Campaigns, atos, WCA, Politics, Benefits, esa, disability, Labour

GPs Unanimously Vote To Condemn Atos Work Capability Assessments3 comments

Steve wrote 5 days ago: The Social Welfare Union, together with our partners, are very pleased to announce that the United K … more →

Tags: All, atos, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Campaigns, disability, DPAC, esa, Legal

Disgraced A4e 'sent jobseeker to look for work at a lap-dancing club'2 comments

Steve wrote 5 days ago: Controversial welfare-to-work firm A4e were facing a fresh police investigation last night as it eme … more →

Tags: A4E, All, Benefits, Conservatives, Emma Harrison, esa, jsa, Labour, Politics

Paralympic Games Organisers Defend Atos Sponsorship Deal3 comments

Steve wrote 6 days ago: Paralympic organisers have defended the sponsorship of the games by Atos, the multinational company … more →

Tags: All, Campaigns, atos, WCA, Politics, Benefits, esa, disability, DLA

Even The Poverty Pimps Admit Work Programme Isn't Working18 comments

johnny void wrote 1 week ago: In yet another humiliation for lying bastard Chris Grayling, even the Welfare to Work poverty pimps … more →

Tags: Chris Grayling, Employment Related Services Association, Ersa, worfare, /work programme

Dad’s Fight for Justice after Son Died Six Weeks after Benefits Cut by #Atos and #DWP1 comment

Steve wrote 1 week ago: A DAD whose son died of pneumonia just six weeks after his incapacity benefits were axed is fighting … more →

Tags: All, atos, Benefits, disability, esa, Legal, Politics, WCA, Cuts

The infuriating stupidity of the DWP2 comments

Sipech wrote 1 week ago: This will be a rant, so if you’re not in the mood for reading my foul-tempered outpourings then now … more →

Tags: Personal, JobHunting, jsa, Department for Work & Pensions, Incompetence, Bureaucracy


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