Archives for “Employment”
On Another Planet this week: controversial new government plans to tackle ever increasing worklessness using waterboarding. Techniques refined and perfected by secret military personnel known only by their codename ‘Our Boys’ are being piloted by the NHS in an effort to ‘encourage and empower’ people claiming statutory sick pay to return to work. One persistent [...]
Please write to the Lords about the Digital Economy Bill, today Jim Killock, 01 December 2009 Tomorrow, the Digital Economy Bill is debated by the Lords in its Second Reading. This is the first serious discussion of the contents of the Bill: so we need to make sure the Lords know that this Bill is [...]
Suffice it to say, no one should have so much alone time that few of his friends knew what was bothering him. Isolation is a set up for future problems. Source Interesting point about isolation. Some pretty shocking research statistics from Australia here, too: “Mentally ill endure lives of loneliness and exclusion“. I don’t think [...]
The deadline for buying raffle tickets for the Small Charity Car Draw is tomorrow Friday 4 September. So, please, if you’d like to help Enfield Clubhouse support some of the most disadvantaged and socially excluded members of our community get their lives back buy a ticket or ten or as many as you want. It’s [...]
Jonathan Naess writes in The Guardian on Christine Laird‘s “victory” over her bullying bosses at Cheltenham Council. His excellent piece highlights all the main issues around discrimination faced by people with a history of mental health problems trying to get jobs. But one thing stands out to me: “She spent three months in a psychiatric [...]
SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Public manager | Leading questions: What are the main challenges to employing disabled people? Deep-rooted assumptions that disabled people are unemployable. Yet we have four government ministers who have a disability: David Blunkett, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and John Prescott. As usually happens, I found this while looking for something else.Now, I think [...]