Dr Clare Williams examines challenges posed by disability in the context of welfare cuts and market governance.
On 18th March 2025, Secretary of State for Welfare and Pensions Liz Kendall stood up in the House of Commons to propose sweeping cuts to disability welfare in the UK. The goal was to get disabled people into jobs – any job, at any cost to their wellbeing, with ‘only the most severely disabled who will never work’ protected.
Such labour market activation policies aim to push disabled people into the labour market by cutting welfare, rather than reforming labour markets to make them more accessible to disabled people. Yet at the same time, the government was busy ‘quietly dismantl[ing]’ Access to Work, a centrally administered grant programme designed to alleviate some of the barriers disabled people face in accessing employment, with disabled claimants losing their support and, ultimately, their jobs Read full article...
Assistant Professor
Biographical and contact information for Dr Clare Williams, Assistant Professor at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham.
