Justice for Surrey & Borders NHS Partnership & Richmond Fellowship Garden Centre Workers: Mind Support Question

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Saturday, August 12, 2006

Mind Support Question

I have asked Sophie Corlett, Policy Director of Mind the following questions

" Would you please explain what Mind's position on service users working to the DWP's permitted rules is and what steps Mind intends to take to support and advocate for all service users - not simply its own service users - whose disabilities include irregularity and inconsistency , who are being discriminated against by this ( NIMHE's) stark 'benefits or mainstream work' agenda because it seeks to eradicate the more realistic and appropriate social inclusion , choices and 'asylum' that the therapeutic/permitted work rules give them."

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The Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Trust runs a commercial garden centre staffed by people with disabilities & recently cut the Â£3 a day payments to these workers and now expects them to work for nothing. SABP has 179 people engaged in similar what it calls ' therapeutic work ' across its various work schemes.
We are campaigning to see that SABP's disabled workers at least get the national minimum wage or if they are on benefits paid at the appropriate permitted work rules rates.

We are also appalled that Surrey & Borders has treated its disabled workers in this way while claiming that its services are User Friendly.

This uncaring 'professional' attitude towards and exploitation of disabled workers isnt just happening in Surrey, it appears to be part of wider DWP and NIMHE policy . Please use the Action Links below to support the campaign and let other people know what is going on.