Disabled activists have reacted angrily to “horrific” government plans that could see work coaches being sent into mental health hospitals to help push people in severe mental distress off benefits…
Having had experience of the Job Centre in the past, if I had serious mental health problems, seeing someone from there would not make me feel any better.
Job centre staff receive training on how to be as ignorant and rude as possible, it takes really skill.
I had one try to make me go work on a construction site, despite the fact I’d told them loads of times that I tenden problems in my hand, and can’t really grip things. They said I was just lazy, I’d have dropped tools on everyone’s heads, it would be a nightmare.
Having had experience of the Job Centre in the past, if I had serious mental health problems, seeing someone from there would not make me feel any better.
Job centre staff receive training on how to be as ignorant and rude as possible, it takes really skill.
I had one try to make me go work on a construction site, despite the fact I’d told them loads of times that I tenden problems in my hand, and can’t really grip things. They said I was just lazy, I’d have dropped tools on everyone’s heads, it would be a nightmare.