UK Gov petition (ie at 10,000 Govt will respond) In a speech on 5/3/19, Work & Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd announced plans to merge assessments...
Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al Abstract The...
Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions The UK's Department for Work and Pensions is drawing up plans for an internal service...
This post and the four following ones have been split from this thread: Action for M.E. hosts DWP spotlight training [MEDIA]...
"Disabled people will be able to work with a dedicated key worker to get and stay in employment, the new Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd...
A range of people from the Department for Work and Pensions had the opportunity to learn more about M.E. and its impact on claimants, in a...
Hard-up claimants of ESA were shortchanged by up to £20,000 each. Now the number of victims - and money owed - has soared It affects claimants...
Shocking but perhaps not unexpected Check out @MrTopple’s Tweet: [MEDIA]
Another article by Steve Topple using ME and PACE as illustrative of current government policy, Last year, the UN accused the Department for Work...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is now effectively fully co-working with the NHS to get people living with mental health issues back to...
I have this week received these from the DWP. I've had a quick look through. The two things that strike me are that they confirm Aylward...
Hello, First post, here goes... I recently placed a number of Freedom of Information requests with the funders of the PACE trial, named on the...
The IAPT-LTC pathway full implementation guidance was recently published (see below) to support national roll-out of 'IAPT-LTC' (which encompasses...
I received these a little while ago. See https://www.s4me.info/threads/correspondence-from-the-dwp-for-2003.2682/ 17 files.
Saw this on Twitter. Rather shocked. Parking it here. DWP it seems has many ways to get at the disabled. :( [MEDIA]
I have previously shared the correspondence for 2004. Here it is for 2003. I am getting these as and when I can. There is a limit to how much...
Nearly one in three of the disability benefit assessment reports completed by a private sector contractor were significantly flawed, confidential...
Article in the Guardian Friday Feb 9th 2018 'Substantial minority' of disability claimants failed by system – MPs A “substantial minority” of...
The connections between government and the insurance business in their joint project to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits....
Mr Justice Mostyn said in his judgement last month that DWP’s intention had been “to save money” and that the decision to introduce the new...
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