Tag Archives: politics

National disability charity, Sense, warns that shrinking specialist employment support system will further marginalise disabled jobseekers National disability charity, Sense, has responded to the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) report which highlights that proposed cuts to funding in the Government’s employment programmes will see 45,000 fewer disabled people offered specialist support to find jobs. Warning that the new Work and ... Read More »

National deafblind charity, Sense, has called for assurance from the Government that plans for a new Early Years funding formula will not be affected by the announcement on the 21 July of the introduction of a new National Funding Formula for schools which is set to be delayed until 2018-19. The Government was expected to bring forward plans for a ... Read More »

Opportunities for disabled people in the workplace are likely to come under threat unless government prioritises the recreation of EU safeguards into British statute. That is according to diversity consultancy, The Clear Company, which contributes to the government’s Disability Confident campaign. The  EU  and  its  Member  States  have  a  strong mandate  to  improve  the  social  and  economic  situation of people ... Read More »

With people with disabilities disproportionately impacted by austerity, London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert has welcomed a call by the European Parliament for all European countries to do more to fulfil their commitments under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. MEPs voted overwhelmingly in support of the conclusions of a progress report [1] on the EU’s implementation ... Read More »

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Deafness, chaired by Jim Fitzpatrick MP, has secured a 90 minute debate on deafness and hearing loss in Westminster Hall at 3pm on Thursday 30 June. The motion for the debate is “that this House has considered the NHS England Action Plan on Hearing Loss and the new adult hearing service commissioning framework”. The framework ... Read More »

National deafblind charity, Sense, has previously called on the Government to introduce legislation that would end “digital exclusion” faced by people with sight and hearing loss. Sense, the national deafblind charity, has expressed disappointment at the Government’s refusal to bring in legislation that would see the introduction of subtitles, signed content and audio description on video-on-demand content.  In partnership with ... Read More »

Conservative MP Alistair Burt has been appointed as care and support minister in the reshuffle following the general election. He replaces Norman Lamb, a Lib Dem who had held the position since September 2012. The Guardian have pieced together a quick guide to his previous roles, his responsibilities and his plans for the next fiver years. You can read the ... Read More »

In a new survey published today, Mencap reveals that people with a learning disability have a political appetite and want to vote, but many are excluded from the process and aren’t able to exercise their democratic right. 70% of people with a learning disability said that they want to vote in the future (1), bucking the trend of a somewhat ... Read More »