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A minister has asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whether it could release secret reports to families whose relatives’ deaths have been linked to DWP’s actions and failings. Ever since Disability News Service (DNS) first revealed the existence of […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has “shamefully” failed to keep a record of how it responded to a secret report that called for it to reduce suicides of benefit claimants and other “very bad cases”. The report was written […]
A Conservative peer was commissioned to examine how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) dealt with reports of claimant suicides linked to DWP, even though she was a director of a company closely connected to one of those deaths. Baroness […]
A secret report written by a Conservative peer called for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to reduce the number of suicides of benefit claimants and other “very bad cases” linked to the department’s actions. The Complaints, Suicides and Other […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has unlawfully failed to respond to a request to see a secret paper on the department’s safeguarding failures, casting doubt on a minister’s pledge to open DWP to “public scrutiny”. The “critical friend” paper […]