Article by Guest contributor Bernadette Meaden Faced with the costs of an ageing population and more sick and disabled children surviving into adulthood, are politicians and corporations working to downgrade or deny illness and disability? As the Paralympics end, an event … Continue reading
Article by Guest Contributor - Bernadette Meaden Atos, the company that conducts Work Capability Assessments (WCA) for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), is sponsoring the Paralympics. The irony of this is almost beyond words. A company causing fear … Continue reading
An Article by Bernadette Meaden The American news website Huffington Post recently published an article headlined, ‘Austerity in the United Kingdom Leaves Disabled in Fear for Their Lives’. Author Paul Vale reported the sense of dread currently hanging over many … Continue reading
Guest Contributor – Bernadette Meaden At times the government’s approach to the poor and disadvantaged seems baffling, their reasoning tortured. Take child poverty for instance: recently Ian Duncan Smith and his supporters in the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) declared … Continue reading
Are well-meaning but politically naïve charities unwittingly helping the government to dismantle the welfare state? Ekklesia has been examining the new emerging relationship between (faith based) charities and Government since 2006. Prior to the last general election I talked to … Continue reading