Pam Thomas

👨‍👦 60% say work experience depends on 'who you know', not 'what you know'. Young people need need better careers advice and structured, fair access to opportunities for all.
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YouTube video by National Audit Office Supporting people to work through jobcentres

A shortage of work coaches at jobcentres has led The Department for Work & Pension to reduce the level of support it provides to Universal Credit claimants.

Read our report on how DWP supports people to work through jobcentres: www.nao.org.uk/reports/supp...

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Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his disability benefits because he h…

The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form.

DPAC says ‘this is just the start’, after protest over ‘vile and cruel’ benefit cuts outside Downing Street Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested …

Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested outside Downing Street yesterday.

Labour’s cuts to PIP will drag a quarter of a million people into absolute poverty, DWP figures show The government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP) will drag a quarter of a million working-age people into absolute poverty* by 2030, official documents have …

The government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment will drag a quarter of a million working-age people into absolute poverty by 2030, official documents have revealed.

💪 The #EmploymentRights Bill passed the Commons last night – delivering a major victory for working people.

❌ The Tories & Reform tried to block it at every turn.

DWP refuses to apologise after using ‘deeply irresponsible’ figure to exaggerate benefit claimant rise The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to apologise for massively exaggerating the rise in people claiming out-of-work disability benefits, and then tried to cover-up its actions, j…

DWP refuses to apologise after using ‘deeply irresponsible’ figure to exaggerate benefit claimant rise
#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits

I have inserted the text but this is ABSURD NONSENSE and I'd like to ask you to ask an editor to agree that we really do NOT need to clog up a properly written paper with this rubbish. What you're asking me to do is give myself permission to quote my own sentence (which I wrote, on my own website, set up for this project) stating a LIST OF PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED A DISSEMINATION EVENT. The NIHR's reputation will be damaged by the insertion of these stupid disclaimers every few pages. PLEASE could someone exercise some COMMON SENSE here?

Getting very angry with @nihr.bsky.social journals people who now run all submissions through a crazy piece of 'plagiarism' software and ask you to insert a lengthy copyright disclaimer whenever they spot a sentence that is the same as, or similar to, a sentence you have published previously.

Hi 👋

Like many we are trying to find a suitable alternative to migrate from Twitter/X so find ourselves here.

We are keen to connect with:

🎭 d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists
📢 disability rights activists
👌advocates of access and inclusion
🪇arts venues

Anyone else in arts & access 👇

If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts

A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

'On the nights she struggled to breathe, she was forced to stay awake and hold the mask to her face in the dark. The NHS’s solution?...one assessor suggested her 14-yr-old daughter fill in as a child carer...being on call for the ventilator throughout the night.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

DWP blocked researchers from discussing ‘shocking’ data on ESA suicide attempts in ‘unique’ report Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data sh…

Department for Work and Pensions civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data showing how many of them had attempted suicide.

Never again. We will remember them.

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Disabled people The Nazis targeted for persecution anyone that they believed to have mental or physical disabilities. From 1939-1941 the Nazis carried out a programme of ‘euthanasia’, known as the T4 programme (Tierg...

Around 250,000 disabled children & adults were murdered in Nazi Germany, they were considered a threat to the human gene pool, a drain on society & their lives unworthy of life. It began with 'mercy killing' of children that required approval from medical experts.

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Committee examining assisted suicide bill ‘is skewed’, ‘a stitch-up’… and may have breached UN convention Disabled campaigners have raised serious concerns about the fairness of the committee of MPs that is carrying out detailed examination of a bill to legalise assisted suicide, after it prevented any…

Disabled campaigners have raised serious concerns about the fairness of the committee of MPs that is carrying out detailed examination of a bill to legalise assisted suicide, after it prevented any disabled people’s organisations from giving evidence in person.

Image shows a hand with a red pen attempting to fill in a HM revenue and customs form.

Hello!
I am working with Amnesty & I am looking for a Disabled person who has experienced difficulties in the benefits system & then experienced impacts to their wider rights (housing, health etc) because of the violation of their right to social security.
Please DM or comment.
You can be anonymous.

Liverpool Christmas Support Page 2024 - Feeding Liverpool We have compiled a list of Liverpool-based Christmas Food Support services and resources for the Christmas and New Year period. Community Christmas Meals The below organisations are providing a Christ...

Really helpful information for residents over the Christmas period.

If you need urgent support and access to good food, our funded collaborative Feeding Liverpool has set up this dedicated page.

www.feedingliverpool.org/liverpool-ch...

Water bills to rise 20% (£86) plus inflation in April and then above inflation for the next four years. @Ofwat gives private water companies in England the go-ahead to make customers pay for the investment they have failed to do for 30 years while enriching shareholders and bosses

I'm going to guess you won't hear this on the Laura Kuenssberg show – only the numbers arriving.

Vapocalypse now: 8m vapes go unrecycled each week Young people are more likely to bin, litter or flush away used cartridges

The scandal of vapes gets worse bit.ly/3ZEGhcV at some point in 2026 the Circular Economy Minister (yes there really is one) will get some powers to make foreign importers pay something towards recycling them. That’s 800million unrecycled vapes from now.

I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in

Bring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in Europe Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme

“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme”

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Wheelchair space with luggage in it

Not impressed with transpenine today because there isn't a suitable ramp at #haymarket to train manager has to get me on before boarding me he let on two passengers with large amounts of luggage who of course have put it in the wheelchair space

Hand witha microphone pointing to sign saying "Keep up the momentum on disability rights!"

A lightbulb saying strategy and the text "Update the European Disability Rights Strategy - The European Commission must adopt new flagship initiatives and actions for 2025-2030."

Banner saying "Keep up the momentum on disability rights: 108 signatories, 44 European and International Organisations and 63 National organisations

On International #DisabilityRights Day, we have a simple request for the @EU_Commission and Commissioner @hadjalahbib:
- Commit to advancing disability rights.
- Commit to update the EU #DisabilityRightsStrategy.

#DisabilityDay #IDPD

Our open letter: https://buff.ly/4idVfiI

poster reads - International Day of Disabled People. 2024 theme: Disabled leadership

Reaching our full potential in life is important to us all. But Disabled people are often overlooked as leaders due to assumptions about what we can and can’t do. @campaignfdj.bsky.social is led by Disabled people, one of many organisations reminding the world of what’s possible on #IDDP #IDPD

The UK must change for disabled people in 2025 – so we can live lives we deserve This year saw further decline of living standards for disabled people and a repeated government focus on cutting social security spending.

This International Day of Disabled People, DR UK's Mikey Erhardt wrote for @bigissue.com about life for Disabled people in the UK over the last year, as well as the successes of Disabled activism and our demands for the upcoming year.

www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...

International Day of Persons with Disabilities | United Nations The International Day of Disabled Persons aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development.

It's United Nations disabled people's day the logo has 4 colours (not purple, as used by commercial interests). The UN promotes the slogan "Nothing About Us Without Us". In the UK disabled people's concerns are often ignored & overlooked in favour of non-disabled privilege www.un.org/en/observanc...

if it's easier to get assisted dying than a place in a hospice we have royally screwed up

Staff 'just want to cry' after closure of hospice ward A hospice spokesperson today told the ECHO they were "committed to providing the care people need, when they need it"

The inpatient ward at the Marie Curie hospice in south Liverpool has been closed since July and staff fear it will never reopen.

Workers told us people are suffering painful deaths while there is no hospice serving the entire south of the city.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

We are so close now, thank you to all who have signed and shared. Just one final push to help us to get justice for 3.6 million #WASPI #1950swomen who have been so badly wronged.
Please sign and repost our petition now.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...