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Government review calls for ‘safer, more supportive’ workplaces for disabled people
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Government review calls for ‘safer, more supportive’ workplaces for disabled people
A government review has called for action by employers and ministers to ensure “safer, more supportive, inclusive workplaces” and to address the barriers faced by sick and disabled people in and ou…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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DWP staff losing their jobs warn cuts will hurt ‘the most vulnerable’
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Over 120 staff are likely to lose their jobs as the Lincoln Support Centre shuts
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DWP staff losing their jobs warn cuts will hurt ‘the most vulnerable’
Over 120 staff are likely to lose their jobs as the Lincoln Support Centre shuts
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November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The Motability scheme is not “low-hanging fruit” for public service cuts
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The Motability scheme is a lifeline for some disabled people like me but I hope you never need it #LizzieJones
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The Motability scheme is not “low-hanging fruit” for public service cuts
The Motability scheme is a lifeline for some disabled people like me but I hope you never need it
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November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to rule out spending cuts to personal independence payment when it completes a year-long review that is being headed by the disability minister
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DWP refuses to rule out cuts to PIP next year
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to rule out spending cuts to personal independence payment (PIP) when it completes a year-long review that is being headed by the disability m…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Campaigner for Deaf People Wins Top Award
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Robin Ash has been honoured for his groundbreaking work improving healthcare access for the Deaf community
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Campaigner for Deaf People Wins Top Award
The work of a passionate advocate and educator at Deaf-led charity SignHealth has won the prestigious Charity Champion Award at the ScottishPower Foundation Awards. Robin Ash has been honoured for…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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The bond market is wrong. Reeves should not cut welfare to placate the City
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Keeping the markets on side is the chancellor’s priority but it’s not an easy task given their simplistic, misplaced views on welfare cuts
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The bond market is wrong. Reeves should not cut welfare to placate the City | Richard Partington
Keeping the markets on side is the chancellor’s priority but it’s not an easy task given their simplistic, misplaced views on welfare cuts
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November 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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'Incentivising work' or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired
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New research from Z2K shows that a punitive benefits system pushes people away from work and harms the economy
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How making the benefits system meaner has backfired
New research from Z2K shows that a punitive benefits system pushes people away from work and harms the economy in the process.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Follow the Money: How the Right Weaponises the Costs of Supporting Learning Disabled People
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So often in times of economic crisis, the weakest get hit the hardest
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Follow the Money: How the Right Weaponises the Costs of Supporting Learning Disabled People
If politicians are worried about the costs of support for the learning disabled, society must become more transparent about where the money is being spent
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November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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COP30 marks 30 years of COP climate summits. Has it actually made a difference?
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In 2015, world leaders pledged to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C
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It's been 30 years of COP climate summits. Has it actually made a difference?
The Paris Agreement was meant to mark a turning point. Ten years later, emissions keep rising. At COP30, much is at stake.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Stressed Out: HSE says it’s “Time to act on work-related stress”
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In 2023/24 776000 workers reported suffering from work-related stress, depression or anxiety which led to an estimated 16.4 million working days being lost @marisharay.bsky.social @dannychambers.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
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November 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Shops losing millions through lack of access for disabled people
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Shops need 'mindset change' on disabled access
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Shops losing millions through lack of access for disabled people
Purple Tuesday is urging retailers to consider new ways to improve inclusion for disabled customers.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
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The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
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Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
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November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Increase taxes for working people, or make the super-rich pay their fair share? The answer seems obvious – but not to Labour
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Rachel Reeves has unnecessarily blocked her options of what to include in her budget
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Increase taxes for working people, or make the super-rich pay their fair share? The answer seems obvious – but not to Labour | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
Rachel Reeves has unnecessarily blocked her options of what to include in her budget, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation
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November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The year of trade union climate action: our time to lead change
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The climate emergency is no longer a distant threat. It’ here, reshaping the world of work, transforming industries and defining the future for generations to come
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The year of trade union climate action: our time to lead change
This is our moment. Across the world, workers are standing at the crossroads of crisis and change and we, the trade union movement, are stepping forward to lead. The climate emergency is no longer a…
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November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The Lib Dems have compared factionalism and infighting in Reform-run Kent County Council to a Monty Python-style farce
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Reform mocked as expelled councillors form rival group on Kent council
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Reform mocked as expelled councillors form rival group on Kent council
The Lib Dems have compared factionalism and infighting in Reform-run Kent County Council to a Monty Python-style farce
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November 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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New official figures expose how politicians and media have repeatedly lied about social security spending
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New official figures expose how politicians and media have repeatedly lied about social security spending
New official figures – hidden by government and opposition parties – have exposed months of lies by politicians and the media about “spiralling” spending on social security and the need to cut bene…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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nite Community national day of action against cuts and sanctions
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Wednesday 26 November 2025, from noon
College Green, Westminster, London
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November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Ministers listen to disabled campaigners and return key accessibility duty to railways bill
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Ministers listen to disabled campaigners and return key accessibility duty to railways bill
The government has restored accessibility to the heart of its planned rail reforms, in a victory for disabled campaigners and allies who fought plans to remove a key measure from new legislation. L…
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November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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This is how it feels to be a disabled woman desexualised by the world
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In her book, The View From Down Here, Lucy Webster argues that for disabled women, there is an additional battle to be seen as women at all.
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This is how it feels to be a disabled woman desexualised by the world
In her book The View From Down Here, Lucy Webster argues that for disabled women, there is an additional battle to be seen as women at all.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Stop billionaire-backed forced labor www.freedomunited.org/advocate/sto...
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Stop billionaire-backed forced labor
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Amancio Ortega - these billionaires sit atop empires built on exploitation. Let's call them out.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world's money while the poorest suffer
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Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of all new wealth generated, while the poorest half of the world has received only 1%
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We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world's money while the poorest suffer
Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of all new wealth. The poorest half of the world has received only 1%.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit
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Triple-whammy of hottest ever years risks ‘irreversible damage’, says UN
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Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’
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November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Employers are being urged to step up and help disabled people stay in work. But is it enough?
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Disability Rights UK called the Keep Britain Working review “another government-commissioned report” which “blames disabled people for not working” @marisharay.bsky.social
Employers told to step up and help disabled people. But is it enough?
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that 60 employers will join forces with the government to help disabled people.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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We agree with Daisy Cooper MP that the Govt. must decide what they think is fairer, taxing families or taxing big banks? @libdemdaisy.bsky.social
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The Govt. must decide what they think is fairer, taxing families or taxing big banks? #pmqs
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November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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'Obscene' profiteering
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“What the Unite energy costs report clearly shows, is that households are being fleeced pure and simple." @unitesharon.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM