Having written many things about the reforms now being forced upon us, I would like to ask as a general discussion about sending people back to work who have been assessed by the NHS and in some cases by an assessment company as LWRAG's and the need to go forward in accessing work.
I am a Health and Safety Officer or was in ALL my jobs of work and attained many skills in Engineering and as a Union representative, so I am well aware of the needs for adaption to get people who are not only long term sick but have become disabled recently and those that may have been disabled from birth or those like me who have due to medical issues can no longer work.
This is the point of the Discussion:
I a person is working and is able bodied, and comes to work still under the influence of a drink the night before or has taken "recreational drugs that are still in the system going to work and is found by a work collegue, manager, Safety Officer or any one on that site that suspects this, then the person is brought into the office and asked if this is correct.
If this is correct they can, depending on the severity, be told to go to the canteen and sober up, can be suspended and sent home with a warning any further instances of this will take the formal route, or if really bad told to go home and return the following day for a hearing where the official route is instant dismissal.
So, where do disabled people come into this since, in order to function they take a cocktail of PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, and then come to work?
Since "adaptions" needed to have been made to allow a disabled person on site, what if this means that the person is driving a crain, or a truck, or that he has people depending on what he does to repair machinery?
Every person I know who is disabled takes some sort of drugs to get them through the day and to function as normally as THEY CAN, but where does this leave the law?
I do not see any mention in the statements made about this, or that people who are not working at the moment because of their disability, what is needed to change the laws that wouild allow them to seek work even with adaptions, since they will still be taking the medication that has put them in a group that cannot work.
The only course of action by the government is to run courses "if the disabled person wishes to" attend to increase the skills that they do not have now. This should be run at colledges and other places of learning where Teachers can also learn a skill of becoming a Champion for children who are still at school and have special needs.
Yes they do need special treatment, so do other adults of working age, BUT not at the cost of looking for work which changes their entitlements to disability or LWRAG benefits to be placed into a "Job Seeking" or environment that failure to attend some classes will result in lowering their benefits and in some cases suspension of their claim until they attend.
We are turning into a scociety where the increase to get Disabled or Long term sick into work is overriding the need to get ABLEBODIED people into work, since as we know we seem to be supporting the cost of benefits, not the cost of benefits taylored to the needs of the Disabled Person.
Even the term DISABLED should no longer be used since it groups people into one group that attaches a stigma of "people milking the system" because they can. The word in the documents now should be Neurodiversant person, where the person is looked at as having a disability, but with the correct training can achieve WHAT THEY WANT, NOT WHAT THEY ARE BEING TOLD TO DO by someone that does not understand the restraints of the neurodiversant person so group everyone as a disabled person.
This is just ignorance, and unless we stand up for what we need and is our right to claim I do not see how restricting people who are 18 to 22 and claim a disability benefit will under this new system be harder to get this benefit.
If I am examined by a Doctor or GP and am registered as Long term sick, disabled, or in a WRAG, where is the law that protects our rights to receive assistance Medically or Financially, showing the supporting evidence that this is the way to go?
We have the Social Care Act, Employment and Support Act, Human Rights Act to name some, even people that come here as Illegal Immigrants seem to have more rights than us.
What if as a starting position we pay everyone the same as the Benefits given to illegal immigrants, and then add 40% to that figure to cover the cost of the fact that I have contributed to the system through National Insurance and they haven't.
If they are illegal, then the ones we see that are been "processed"is only the tip of the Iceberg, so that if every one was issued with an I D card like a driving licence, this would stop some of the thousands we don't see and slip in unnoticed. No card no job. France do it, America do it, so why not us.
Are we, (this government) afraid that they are not capable of stopping the influx of people here illegally?
What do you think? What is your opinions on the new laws that require us to write a green paper to get the opinion of the people who it affects to put a system that could work if implemented correctly but is deemed as cost effective run only.
