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Remploy.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/herald-view/double-blow-for-disabled-workers.16964977
Kick the legs out from under people then tell them to stand on their own two feet! Who'll get the money to 'help' the people who were working back into work? A4e no doubt...
Yeah interesting one that.
Apparently several disabled charities [u]support[/u] the dismantling of Remploy, as they feel the segregation keeps disabled people from mainstream work. Which is a fair point.
But I'm not sure that now, in the current climate with less jobs and little funding, is the right time to be doing it.
Yep, read this yesterday - while Remploy really goes back to disabled ex-servicemen I guess it lost its 'backers' once there was no one in Government who'd fought in the big wars - so unsupported for probably 30 years now.
Shame, and as you say, someone will take the 'cream' and a load of hard-to-employ folk will be left unemployed - often in high-unemployment areas.
Maybe this is somewhere we could do with a White Knight - to come and sort out the direction of Remploy and its management, and better use (whatever) subsidy they get.
I heard yesterday the average subsidy was £25K pp pa...seems high? Shirley there's work these folk could so that wouldn't be so expensive to subsidise?
RBS loses £2 billion and we offer the directors bonuses which are subsequnetly refused/withdrawn following media attention.
Remploy loses £68m and we shut it down whils the minister talks tosh about creating 'upto' 8000 additional jobs in the private sector for disabled people but with nothing concrete to put forward.
Pretty poor, tbh.
I heard yesterday the average subsidy was £25K pp pa...seems high?
It does doesn't it
If I could be sure that that money saved was going into supporting more job programs - starting with helping those sacked - I'd be more inclined to feel better about the whole mess
But even if it was £25k pa, and there was some debate about the accuracy of the figures, that isn't much compared to the ongoing costs of maintaining the former workers on benefit.
'upto' 8000 additional jobs in the private sector for disabled people
Zero would still count as 'upto 8000' though. In this respect I can see them fully honouring that pledge. Of course, all these disabled people will now be getting grilled by the government about their eligabilty for benefits, and find themselves on the receiving end of [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/20/disability-living-allowance ]this[/url]
Edinburgh voted to stop subsidising Blindcraft last year on cost grounds so it isn't just (tory) national decisions, but (LD/SNP) local ones too.