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DWP staff make thousands of potentially fatal errors a month on disability claims, official reports reveal
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff are making thousands of potentially fatal errors every month when dealing with ...
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DWP’s chief medical adviser dismisses importance of her own department’s reviews into benefit deaths
The chief medical adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over why she dismissed the ...
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Concern over ‘gaps’ in safety role of DWP’s chief medical adviser
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been unable to explain why its chief medical adviser has no responsibility for ...
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Failure to ensure step-free access at station beside iconic venue, despite £1.3 billion redevelopment, ‘is humiliating and cruel’
The £1.3 billion redevelopment of an iconic cultural venue has failed to ensure step-free access at its neighbouring rail ...
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Gloom and despair over Streeting’s ‘deeply disappointing’ decision to delay social care reform
Disabled campaigners have reacted with despair and exasperation to the government’s “deeply disappointing” announcement that ...
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Deaths, lies and cover-ups: the case for a public inquiry into the ‘unthinkable cost’ of DWP’s systemic violence
Senior civil servants and ministers spent more than a decade covering up evidence that links the actions of a government department with hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled people ...
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New research exposes ‘shocking and eye-opening’ levels of bullying of universal credit claimants
New unpublished research has exposed the impact of “shocking and eye-opening” levels of bullying and systematic mistakes on disabled people forced to rely on the universal credit working-age benefits ...
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New government figures show key policy at heart of disability employment strategy ‘will not work’
A key treatment that ministers have placed at the heart of their strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ill-health into paid work has only a tiny impact on the probability of them ...
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Activists ask why a Labour government is ‘gleefully’ backing Tory plans to tighten work capability assessment
Disabled activists have questioned why a Labour-run department was in the high court this week defending cuts proposed by the last government which would cause “human suffering” among hundreds of ...
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Advice services run by disabled people under threat due to ‘constant challenge’ of securing funding
Advice services provided by disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are under significant financial threat, despite a surge in demand for the support they provide, new research has shown. More than ...
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Court hears disabled activist’s challenge to ‘cataclysmic’ cuts to out-of-work disability benefits
The high court in London has this week heard a legal challenge that aims to expose how the last Conservative government used a “sham consultation” to try to push through “cataclysmic” cuts to ...
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Concern over government’s ‘terrible joke’ appointment of rail access ‘ambassador’
Disabled campaigners have questioned the government’s decision to appoint a senior rail executive as one of its new disability and access ambassadors. Alison Smith, the accessibility and inclusion ...