Figures from @Adzuna show the total number of online job adverts on 26 April 2024 remained broadly unchanged when compared with the previous week 💻

This was 20% below the level seen for the equivalent period of 2023.

Pleased to see this reinvention of specialist DEAs (!) Undoubtedly well intentioned but are DWP not just a tad concerned about yet another over complication of the employment support landscape?

Lots of focus on whether the radicalism of Labour's proposed employment law changes are being neutered - but the discussion is weirdly abstracting from the specifics and 'watering down' talk is overdone - this is largely the inevitably turning of slogans into govt action. Quick🧵

I missed this last week - prospectus for the new 'Employment advisers in musculoskeletal pathways' project.
Great to see and v welcome: lots of evidence for impact of good quality rehabilitation alongside health support.
Open to all ICBs to bid, by 24 May.
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Only bollards can deliver this level of happiness.
#WorldBollardAssociation 🏏🇬🇧

You must read this. Thanks Frances for writing this, absolutely spot on.

For anyone who is worried/concerned/scared about what they've been hearing about PIP in the last couple of days.
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Thanks to Trades Union Congress for this compilation - people have always reckoned that others are workshy. (Tip, if you can't find enough workers, raise wages, or mechanise. There is no third option). 1/2

UC Programme Risk Update - see paper from 15 March 2022

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These appear to be main risks discussed

Paper Title: Universal Credit Benefits Realisation Update Spring 2022
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The DWP's new Green Paper, Modernising support for independent living, displays a basic lack of understanding of how benefits for disability work and what they are there for. My blog at
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Cheers Neil Couling .... hope this is also helpful rightsnet.org.uk/resources/univ…

This evening the DWP published a new 'Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper' - some very early thoughts...

Speed reading the PIP green paper: the 'aligning support' chapter looks to go beyond joining up the assessment process into questions about localising PIP/PIP budget 'local areas could have the flex to choose how to best support individuals..within their local population '

A new consultation on PIP launched by DWP Secretary Mel Stride this evening says, 'many people have a good assessment experience.' But what is it like to go through it?

We've heard people's actual experience. The government should hear them too 🔽🧵

Part of the government's rationale for introducing PIP a decade ago was that DLA (which it replaced) was 'outdated' & didn't properly recognise mental health problems

Now the 'misuse' of PIP for mental health is the rationale for trying to cut costs... 🧵
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Some bloke in Bristol would like to build a house. Also the neighbours don't want to lose their shortcut to Tescos so get it reclassed as a village green.

New Nimby watch
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Bristolian Nimbys are up in arms over a single home

✍jonn elledge

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This is my experience - it's so frustrating to hear misrepresentations of the ease of claims - it is the opposite of easy.