I recently published two briefings about social security for sick and disabled people, in an attempt to help MPs see why Labour's planned...

On 1st May 2025, I was part of a small group of women who had a brief meeting with Stephen Timms, to discuss the cuts that Labour plan to...

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Stephen Timms, the Labour MP who is Minister for Social Security and Disability. This was as...

The Learning and Work Institute recently released a briefing which, rather optimistically to my mind, suggested that 45,000-95,000 sick...

This is the fifth in my series of blog posts looking at the impact of employment support for sick and disabled people. So far, a handful...

This is the fourth in my series of blog posts looking at employment support programmes for sick and disabled people. So far, the most...

This is the third blog in a series looking at various employment support programmes that have tried to support sick and disabled people...

There are so many issues with Liz Kendall’s speech today, and the Green Paper proposals, that it is really hard to know where to begin....

My last blog post covered the Work and Health Programme (W&HP) for disabled people who had been “identified as being capable of finding...

The current Labour government is very keen for people with chronic illness to somehow move into work. Despite all the evidence which...

The UK PM perpetuates the myth of the sick note culture, as an excuse to cut support to sick and disabled people.

The budget today announced a lot of stuff, and most of it I’m not qualified to comment on. I’m interested, because I have a sister with...

Compared to previous programmes, the Work Programme is not helping more people into work or keeping them in work longer. As we move into...

On Thursday the DWP announced that Atos is withdrawing from its contract to run Work Capability Assessments, the controversial assessment...

The government has been carrying out a study of suitable descriptors to use for assessments for ESA. The results were supposed to be...

We cannot afford to base policy on public opinion when the public opinion is based on false information. ESA is a good example of this....

When it’s their word against yours, medical evidence is what proves you’re not the one lying. Medical evidence is what says that you are...

Many people are disabled because they are chronically sick.  These people cannot turn up to work regularly, because any given day they...

I received a request to write about the 878 300 people who drop their ESA claims early.  The government’s line – repeated several times –...

“84% of GPs say they have patients who have presented with mental health problems such as stress, anxiety or depression as a result of...