Shameful that charities ‘sell out’ people with disabilites

Several leading disability charities are being criticized, by a user-led disability group, for flirting with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and  seeking to gain UK government contracts. The Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) said that the charities are 'selling out' and that there is no way that the charities could speak out strongly …

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Charity vilified as it lends manager to government

Unbelievable, grossly inconsiderate and just plain barmy. Why UK mental health charity Mind would agree to the one-year secondment of one of its senior managers to the government’s tainted Department of Work and Pensions is as incomprehensible as it is stupid. It has been reported that the charity’s policy and campaigns manager Tom Pollard will …