Help for disabled people in England and Wales to get jobs is axed amid benefits crackdown

Closure of Work and Health Programme comes hard on heels of Rishi Sunak's bid to end the UK's supposed sicknote' culture

A major scheme to help disabled people into work has been quietly scrapped - just as the prime minister announced a crackdown on disability benefits.

The 100m Work and Health Programme, operating in England and Wales, will end in the autumn, providers have been told, at the same time that Rishi Sunak wants to cut benefits for 420,000 sick and disabled people in an attempt to force them into work - a move that charities say would instead leave people destitute.