Victorian Tory education policy: no disabled, no redheads and young children in forced isolation

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s Tory Britain!)

The Tories are rapidly taking us back to Victorian times in many ways – not least in our schools.

First of all they openly say that children in wheelchairs shouldn’t have the right to attend school:

Tory spokesman Toby Young thinks disabled children should be excluded from schools

And they’re excluding pupils with red hair:

Redhead banned from school just weeks before her A-levels

They’re even putting young children in forced isolation because their parents have dressed them in the slightly ‘wrong’ school uniform:

Ex-prison head puts 100s of children in isolation

And Tory Education ministers have clearly never spoken to any 4-year-olds, or they would have realised just how stupid their decision was to force toddlers to sit formal exams:

This may not be Cameron’s worst policy – but it’s definitely his stupidest

The Tories are also openly handing lucrative state school assets over to their donors:

Tories rush to hand over…

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A very interesting document. Please read… And please share…..

A very interesting document. Please read… And please share…...

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What will the Tories suggest next. “Compassionate” eugenics?

Well Said Kitty……

Politics and Insights

The Tory parliamentary candidate for Cambridge, Chamali Fernando sparked outrage and horror after saying mental health patients should wear wristbands to identify their conditions. Fernando was speaking at a hustings event hosted by the campaign group Keep Our NHS Public when she made the comment.

Andy Burnham, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said: “There has been an enormous amount of work in Parliament to challenge the stigma surrounding mental health. But comments like this are so disappointing – they set us back and remind us how far we have to go. Jeremy Hunt must disown these comments, instruct his candidate to apologise and make it clear that they form no part of Conservative Party policy.”

“This proposal shows the candidate’s harmful views on mental health,” Disability and Mental Health Adviser at University of the Arts, London Annabel Crowley said.

Research carried out by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience…

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Jobcentre ‘Work Coaches’ cannot make following mandatory

Useful Information about what activities can be Mandated

www.refuted.org.uk

Today the DWP disclosed a summary of it’s Work Coaches (WC) “main activities“, it is worth noting that use of the ‘My Work Plan‘ is entirely voluntary and benefit claimants can restrict WC/DWP access to Universal Jobmatch accounts. Under Universal Credit (UC), it is not a requirement to sign a Claimant Commitment (CC), legislation requires that one be “accepted” via  a number of means. Before accepting a UC CC, there is a 7 day cooling off period.

Work Coaches mail activities

“However, as they would be considered Work Coaches, the main activities
associated with this role are:
–  To make every claimant contact count by coaching them to take
responsibility for getting themselves into work. Complete a Claimant
Commitment and be accountable for the decisions made during
interviews with claimants to help move them back into sustained
employment.
–  Agree the Claimant Commitment

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New Claims: The DWP Doesn’t Tell You This

Useful Info for New Claimants re interim payments when waiting for first payment etc…

Same Difference

I spotted this on Facebook yesterday and thought it might be useful.

Sat with Legal Advisor at Foodbank today, learned that for new claims with up to six weeks wait, you can ask for an interim payment of your forthcoming benefits, this however is not being passed on via DWP advisors, please pass on to anyone, groups who may already be aware but just in case, any new info learned will also be passed on, and 100% success rate overturning sanctions too, so people must appeal, most are overturned, also most Foodbanks have free Legal Advice on certain days of week

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Benefit sanctions: Britain’s secret penal system

Benefit sanctions: Britain’s secret penal system.

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Benefit sanctions: Britain’s secret penal system

Benefit sanctions: Britain’s secret penal system.

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RightsInfo UPDATE… how to get to the launch party and other news

UK Human Rights Blog

Just a quick update on RightsInfo, my new human rights information project. As you can see, we now have a logo. The design is a clue to the look and feel of the site – all will be revealed when we launch on Tuesday 21 April. 

RightsInfo will provide clear, reliable and beautiful human rights information to share. I am particularly excited that we have been working closely with the amazing Information is Beautiful Studios to build some fantastic infographics and other fantastic resources… I will say no more, just wait until a week on Tuesday!

If you would like to come to the launch party, there are around 20 spaces left and a final invitation will be going out via the RightsInfo mailing list shortly. If you want to receive it, and get general updates, sign up to the mailing list at rightsinfo.org.

You can also follow RightsInfo on Twitter and

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No Mandatory Requirement for a Claimant to sign on electronically.

Biometric Software used by DWP to validate signatures of Social Security Claimants is not Mandatory says DWP…… Is this choice being made known to Claimants by the DWP?

Ipswich Unemployed Action.

Not Mandatory to Sign.

Hat-Tip: Obi Wan Kenobi.

Given the wave of obligations claimants are now shouldering this is intresting:

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) 
Central Freedom of Information Team 

[DWP request email]

Our reference: VTR 1201
Date: 2 April 2015

Dear P Baker 
 
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 26 March
2015. You asked:

Digital signature pads have been installed nationwide in Jobcentres & records
biometric information such as rhythm, speed, pressure, acceleration &
movement. The BBC & the manufacturer of the product SIGNificant ColorPad
6 available from xyzmod.com or Icon UK Limited advertises this product as an
equivalent to comparing fingerprints where more than just the signature is
extracted from its use.

Is there any information about a mandatory requirement for claimants to sign
using the digital signature pad which records personal biometrics comparable
to a fingerprint?

What information do you have on what gives JCP or…

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Cameron Joins the Borg for the Sun

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Star Trek’s Borg: The Future of the Conservative Party

On Saturday, I reblogged an edition of Russell Brand’s The Trews, where he takes apart a promotional video for David Cameron made by the Sun. Apart from the general horrendous bias of the video and its flagrant omissions of what Cameron has actually inflicted on the poor, sick and unemployed of Britain, it was also notable for the weird extremes its sycophantic tone took. It wasn’t enough to show Cameron’s working day, lobbing him soft questions, and trying to present the butcher of the poor and homeless as somehow warm, cuddly and caring.

David Cameron as Nature Documentary

No! They had to take viewer identification to a completely new level. They fixed Cameron up with the type of camera they usually fix on animals in nature documentaries, so you could experience what it was like to be him as…

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