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Apprenticeship reforms are failing to deliver
10 June 2019 | News
According a recent Public Accounts Committee report on apprenticeship reforms, The Department for Education has failed to make the progress that it predicted when it reformed the apprenticeships programme in spring 2017. The number of apprenticeship starts fell by 26% after the apprenticeship levy was introduced and, although the level is now recovering, the government will not meet its target of 3 million starts by March 2020.
Adult social care funding: a local or national responsibility?
26 March 2018 | News
... from 2020, meaning councils will depend on council tax and business rates for the vast majority of their general ...
MPs call for action on unacceptable level of UK financial exclusion
30 March 2017 | News
The Select Committee on Financial Exclusion calls on the Financial Conduct Authority and Banks to give greater priority to tackling financial exclusion in the UK.
Victoria tube station to be step-free in early 2018
16 January 2017 | News
Major milestone in Victoria Station upgrade project as new ticket hall and entrance open.
Disability hate crime prosecutions in last 7 years
05 January 2015 | News
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd) asked the Attorney General, how many people have been charged with disability hate crimes in each of the last 10 years
Answered by: Mr Robert Buckland on 5 January 2015
Work Programme lets down disabled
20 May 2013 | News
Can the Work Programme work for all user groups? - Work and Pensions Committee First Report of Session 2013–14
This report by the Work and Pensions Committee suggests that the Work Programme is failing to reach the most disadvantaged long-term unemployed people, with the result that the hardest to help jobseekers are at risk of being “parked” because providers consider them unlikely to find sustained work.
Commenting on the Report, Dame Anne Begg MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said:
Accessibily concerns over new taxi Uber App
15 June 2014 | News
... on accessible transport should black cabs be driven out of business because of greater use of the Uber App. “The ...
Latest Access to Work statistics
22 July 2013 | News
... that it won’t fund, stopping any requirement on small businesses to share the cost and actually marketing the ...
Access to Work
07 October 2022 | Resource
... or if you are self-employed or setting up your own business through the New Enterprise Allowance. If you have ... items which are regarded as standard equipment, standard business costs or standard health and safety requirements. ...
Combining WCA and PIP assessments: What does it mean?
17 March 2019 | News
Amber Rudd recently made a statement about moving the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) for Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (UC), and the PIP assessment services into one service from 2021.
North Wales Live has asked the DWP what this means in practice and received the following answers: