Liz Kendall wants to force people with serious mental illnesses into work
Liz Kendall wants to force people with serious mental illnesses into work, it is being reported.
The BBC is saying Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall wants to expand a trial in which job coaches visit people with serious conditions, in mental health wards of hospitals, giving them CV and interview advice in order to force them to seek work.
The report does not say that any support is being offered to them for the way work may affect their condition – these are people with serious mental illnesses, remember – so we must conclude that they are getting none.
The report says disability rights campaigners have expressed concerns about the proposals but provides little elaboration on those concerns – it merely says Disability Rights UK has said the proposals make no reference to the Equality Act, flexible working or the access to work scheme and only one reference to reasonable adjustments.
Do you understand what relevance the Equality Act might have on these proposals? Or how flexible working might affect them? The access to work scheme? Reasonable adjustments? No? Then the BBC’s report has failed to properly explain the possible adverse effects on people with serious mental illnesses. I wonder why.
The report goes on to discuss the arguments in support of forcing people with serious mental illnesses into work – and it seems they are entirely to do with saving the government money it would otherwise pay in benefits; Kendall displays absolutely no interest whatsoever in the health of the people she wants to force off the books.
In fact, she seems enthusiastic about throwing them in harm’s way, with a plan to sanction them – cut off the benefits they need in order to live – if they decline the “advice” on offer.
The report quotes her as saying the “benefit system can have a real impact on whether you incentivise or disincentivise work”.
What a vile individual Kendall is turning out to be. We’ve had some monsters at the top of the DWP in the past but it seems she is aiming for Iain Duncan Smith levels of atrocity.
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And what happens of fhey have an ‘episode’ in the job they’ve been forced to do?
people could get hurt – or even killed.
Where are the unions to oppose this?