Waving not drowning, Working Families’ Project for Carers and Parents of Disabled Children who Work or Wish to Work
Welcome to Waving not drowning’s October e-bulletin.
I hope you found the care/flexibility you needed over half-term.
Working Families’ News
- The Waving not drowning’s 2017 survey is still ongoing. Please complete it if you haven’t already done so. It will help inform our campaigning. Your replies will, of course, be confidential but the final anonymised report will be published on Working Families’ website and publicised with appropriate policy makers.
News for Working Parents and Carers
- There is evidence that carers can feel lonely in the workplace. Transport for London, a very large employer, runs a carers network.
- Some jobs can be done from anywhere in the world.
- The TUC’s recent report about young parents in the workplace highlights many of the difficulties they have balancing their work and parenting. It also puts forward constructive proposals.
- When people get agency work they sometimes get paid through an umbrella company. Pay and holiday calculations can get quite complicated. The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group has produced this helpful factsheet in straight forward language.
- Sadly, a recent report finds that parents, especially low paid ones, often get penalised for asking for flexible working. If this happens to you, make notes on what has happened and ring Working Families’ helpline, 0300 012 0312or email r advice.
- The cost of childcare is rising much faster than wages.
- A recent report calls for better part-time positions for secondary school teachers who leave their jobs more frequently than their part-time colleagues in primary schools.
- It’s senior managers and the lowest paid workers that have the most difficulty getting flexible working, according to Mumsnet.
- This is a comprehensive and not uncritical report about support available for unemployed and disabled people moving into work. .
- You can book a place at the National Disabled People’s Summit on Saturday 4 November 2017. If you can’t go, they will be livestreaming the plenary.
- EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) celebrates its 10th birthday by highlighting Doug Paulley’s victory for wheelchair users on buses.
- Just Fair has published a concept note describing how inequality, including disability inequality, is a human rights issue.
- If you are interested in applying to become a disability member of a tribunal that looks at appeals against decisions on Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment and Attendance Allowance, the Judicial Appointments Commission is launching a recruitment campaign in November. Disability members are either disabled themselves or work with, including being a carer for, disabled people. There are vacancies in England, Wales and Scotland.
- Contact a Family, the organisation which supports families with disabled children and young people up to age 25, has rebranded itself as Contact.
- EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) has initiated a project to fund legal support for discrimination in education cases.
- Many Waving not drowning members use short breaks to achieve their work life balance. You can sign the Disabled Children’s Partnership’s petition calling on the government to review these services, many of which are under threat. Parents in South Hertfordshire won a hard fought campaign to keep a local centre offering short breaks open.
- The Disabled Children’s Partnership is seeking the views of disabled children about what matters to them. Take the What Matters survey.
- Call charges to the Universal Credit helpline have been scrapped.
- I am available to talk to parents’ groups about the rights parents of disabled children have in the workplace. If you would like to arrange for me to visit your parent group, please contact me at or 020 7017 0072. I’d only need my fare from London paid.
- August’s winner of the Waving not drowning Draw was ticket number 00003 and September’s was 00023. You too could win up to £50 in the Waving not drowning Draw, a fun way you can support the Waving not drowning project. Just email for a form to buy monthly tickets at £2 each by direct debit.
- One third of the profits will go to lucky prize winners each month.
- The more tickets sold the greater the prize money. The rest of the profits go to help the Waving not drowning project including
- Staffing a helpline advising carers and parents of disabled children
- Publishing a free newsletter for carers and parents of disabled children
- Campaigning for a better deal for carers and parents of disabled children in the workplace
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- There’s lots of information about parents’ and carers’ rights in the workplace on Working Families’ website. If the website doesn’t answer your questions you can ring me on 020 7017 0072 or Working Families’ legal helpline 0300 012 0312.
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