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Coercion into Employment for Disabled and Self-Employed

Governments sometimes employ coercive measures to ensure that citizens are actively seeking work, increasing their working hours, or attending mandatory appointments—sometimes without considering an individual’s personal circumstances, including disability or self-employment. Such coercion can often infringe on a number of human rights and statutory protections.

DWP Sending Work Coaches into Mental Health Hospitals

The DWP’s decision to send work coaches into mental health hospitals to push vulnerable patients off benefits and into work is a deeply concerning practice. It violates basic human rights, risks further harm to those in mental distress and may breach UK law. There must be immediate scrutiny of this policy, and the government needs to reconsider how it supports, rather than coerces, those with severe mental health conditions. Failing to act could not only worsen the mental health crisis in the UK but also invite serious international condemnation.