Access to Work scheme is letting down countless disabled people
When Glyn Hayes from Welwyn in Hertfordshire applied to Access to Work for a new wheelchair attachment, he never expected what was supposed to be a 12-week process to last…
Night work in the UK regularly exploits Black and brown people
As the clocks went back on Saturday 26 October, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published new analysis which revealed the number of Black and brown workers regularly doing night work…
Starmer will get a nasty surprise when he finally gets back to work
When the UK voted the Labour Party into office at the beginning of July, Keir Starmer told us they’d inherited the worst economic circumstances since WWII. They then proceeded to…
Work coaches to be put in NHS mental health services
Can’t work due to bad mental health? You’re a selfish scrounger with no self respect according to the NHS director of mental health Claire Murdoch in the Times On Friday,…
DWP minister inadvertently reveals damning back to work figures
This week I wrote about how Keir Starmer’s Labour could be as dangerous for disabled people as the Tories and I’d like to correct myself there. Some of Labour is…
1.5 million women in the UK now unable to work
New analysis from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) shows the number of women economically inactive as a result of chronic illness has increased by more than 500,000 over last five…
ME/CFS charities work with psychologising organisation
Two of the biggest myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) charities in the UK may be a little too cosy with a controversial organisation pulling the strings behind the clinical care for patients…
climate deniers hate us, elections, and social work
The Canary is excited to share the latest edition of our letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses to the news and politics, or anything else they want to get…
“back to work” funding will screw over chronically ill people
Another day, another disturbing Tory scheme to fuck over chronically ill and disabled people. In the UK government’s latest state-of-the-art vanity project to drive up its dire employment rate statistics,…
Starmer’s McCarthyite Junta, BBC, and social work
The Canary is excited to share the latest edition of our letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses to the news and politics, or anything else they want to get…