Katharine Quarmby

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Month: September 2013

  • Policy Exchange Paper and the Importance of Defining One’s Terms

    Social media was afire yesterday with disabled people furious with the latest paper from the think-tank, Policy Exchange, on extending the policy of work-fare to more unemployed people (with, it does seem, a particular target of disabled unemployed people). http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/shouldnt-policy-exchange-be-honest.html I’ll leave it to experts such as Jonathan Portes at the NIESR to deconstruct the…

  • The UN Rapporteur’s mission to the UK, unpopular groups – and a round-up of more reviews

    I suppose it’s not that surprising that some Conservative MPs have been spluttering over breakfast as they read that Raquel Rolnik, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, has been over here in the UK, examining whether we are providing adequate housing to particular groups – among them disabled people, homeless Roma, Gypsies and…