PIP Cuts Risk North East Lives: Voices, Data, and How to Resist
May 9, 2025
What is happening with welfare reforms? How will it affect the North East of England?
What is happening with welfare reforms? How will it affect the North East of England?
Watch Bex Bowsher, Chair of Unfolding theatre and Difference North East Development Manager, talk about the positive impact of making governance accessible.
How do cuts to welfare affect disabled people in the North East, this article looks into it.
What’s it like trying to get a job when you are Neurodivergent? This looks into the difficulties experienced by one member.
This looks at the reasons why disabled people can’t get work.
This reports on what disabled people think of the Working Well Scheme.
“If the world were truly accessible, what job would you have?”
That’s how we started our latest Members Make the Difference discussion, and the answers said a lot about the barriers we, as disabled people, face.
At Difference North East, we welcome efforts to remove barriers to employment. However, while schemes like “Working Well” provide valuable support, they don’t address the wider structural inequalities that disabled people face every day.
Read about who Mary Greaves was: a local disability rghts pioneer who deserves better recognition.
This article looks at why the Disability Confident Employer Scheme isn’t very good and it also suggests better alternatives.