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Sir Leigh

...ntire call centres, and many of their  people, from our Pension, Disability and Carers Service and our sh...nt. We then take the action to ensure that every part of our Pension, Disability and Carers Service gets the i...

779 days ago

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Melanie Dawes

...leadership commitment as HMRC's Champion for Disability, which has ensured these issu...d an Intranet campaign to raise awareness of disability issues that took place during...ment and led the development of HMRC’s Disability Road Map. This sets out six k...

178 days ago

Tell Us Once Team

...tifying other agencies TUO saves an enormous amount of time and stress. Examples of services notified include state pension, housing benefit and Disability Living Allowance. TUO defines...

178 days ago

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NICS Live 2012 Exhibitors

...ban regeneration, and social legislation. It is also responsible for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, the Social Security Agency, and the Disability Living Allowance Advisory Boa...

4 days ago

Robert Devereux

...We’ve reduced the number of senior roles by a third; we’ve brought our two main executive agencies [Jobcentre Plus and the Pension, Disability and Carers Service] into the...

50 days ago

Blog posts

Junior begins to grow up

...on the kidnappers’ identities and intentions, remained unexplained. He even promised to work cooperatively with the coalition on reforming disability living allowance and sickness...

478 days ago

Why didn’t someone think of this ‘welfare reform’ earlier?

...plex schemes and structures in place will be simplified. So, if you're unemployed, have young children, live in council housing, and also have a disability, you will no longer have to a...

485 days ago

News

New Director of the Office for Disability Issues

...independent living agenda and the Office for Disability Issues within the Department...t is to ensure a “joined-up” approach to disability issues across government, inc...ed people at every level and working towards disability equality across government....

176 days ago

Devereux defends DWP shakeup

...l” and claiming that 5,000 central jobs are to go out of 13,000. The union claims that the executive agencies Jobcentre Plus and the Pensions, Disability and Carers Service are being...

176 days ago

Analysis_opinion

The wrong arm of the law

...inds that it is becoming harder for individuals to challenge government decisions. More people than ever are taking decisions on matters such as Disability Living Allowance to tribunals...

88 days ago

Opinion: the new equality duty

...upporting regulations (known as the specific duties) which came into force in September. The new equality duty replaces the old race, gender and disability equality duties with a single...

95 days ago

Interviews

Interview: Siobhan Benita

...tening to what Londoners want.”Those Londoners, she adds, will include “all those people who don’t normally get listened to: youth groups, disability groups, elderly people”, as...

8 days ago

Interview: Robert Devereux

...gest payment-by-results scheme: the Work Programme. We’re reforming Disability Living Allowance. We’re cha...contribute to what we’re prepared to pay – your family situation, disability, housing – and if you move...

176 days ago

Features

Frontline: A library assistant on the effects of government policy on a public library

...ve been implemented in our library, so we now share our building with the local council office. People can pay council tax, register births, get disability badges or talk to the Citizen...

107 days ago

Diversity on a shrinking platform

...sabled staff, suggests Jeanette Rosenberg, chair of the Civil Service Disability Network. “We’re viewed as...rs, she suggests, should be trained to offer such options unprompted. Disability seems to be one of the tricki...

176 days ago

Round_tables

One small step for a government, one giant leap for governance

...heir mobiles, said Nutt.Keith Gilbey, Citizens Advice’s strategic development director, said the barriers are more often things such as age or disability, rather than the lack of a co...

176 days ago

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...leadership commitment as HMRC's Champion for Disability, which has ensured these issu...d an Intranet campaign to raise awareness of disability issues that took place during...ment and led the development of HMRC’s Disability Road Map. This sets out six k...

176 days ago

...bled people. Marcus works with disability organisations to engage disab...s collaborates with a number of disability organisations, e.g. Mencap, S...ising the profile of access and disability throughout the organisation....te pension, housing benefit and Disability Living Allowance. TUO defines...

176 days ago

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Busy year for diversity winner

Amir Waseem winning award from Gus O'DonnellAmir Waseem has had a busy, but exciting, eight months since winning two Civil Service Diversity & Equality Awards. He tells Matthew O'Toole what the award means to him.It’s been a busy eight months for Amir Waseem since he picked up two Civi...

Tags: disability, civil service, civil service appointments, civil service pay and conditions, equal opportunities and diversity, Procurement

749 days ago

Busy year for diversity winner

Amir Waseem winning award from Gus O'DonnellAmir Waseem has had a busy, but exciting, eight months since winning two Civil Service Diversity & Equality Awards. He tells Matthew O'Toole what the award means to him.It’s been a busy eight months for Amir Waseem since he picked up two Civi...

Tags: disability, civil service, civil service appointments, civil service pay and conditions, equal opportunities and diversity, Procurement

749 days ago

Comments

Comment on "Meeting the new diversity targets"

...personnel in specific grades, compared to others, and establish why. Disability: Work needs to be done regarding increasing the number of disabled staff declaring their disability. I find it sad that only 3.3%...

271 days ago

Comment on "Meeting the new diversity targets"

...o do the job.I am by no means saying that Ethnic Minorities cannot do whatever - merely that we must not bow to pressure for the wrong reasons. Disability is a far more dangerous area...

269 days ago