Disabled charities cool on Remploy review

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 28 September 2007

Disability charities have reacted coolly to work and pensions secretary Peter Hain's announcement at this week's Labour Party conference that the Government would be reviewing plans announced earlier this year to close 32 Remploy factories and merge another 11.

Hain made the announcement after pressure from the GMB union, which had threatened to embarrass the Government by putting a motion to the conference floor condemning the closures and the associated loss of up to 2,400 jobs. He pledged to work to bring more “reliable, good quality public contracts” into...

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