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A regulator has sided with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by ruling that an attempt by Disability News Service (DNS) to obtain more than 90 secret reviews into deaths linked to DWP’s actions was “vexatious”. Information commissioner John Edwards […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally released 90 pages of emails that include information about Disability News Service (DNS) editor John Pring, following a two-and-a-half-year legal battle. It has taken since January 2020 to obtain the information from […]
The information commissioner has ruled against efforts by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to brand Disability News Service “vexatious” for trying to find out how many disabled people are expected to lose out in the move to universal credit. […]
Disability News Service (DNS) has been branded “vexatious” for trying to secure a key unpublished Department for Work and Pensions document that could finally show how many disabled people are expected to lose out in the move to universal credit. DNS […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has repeatedly breached data protection regulations by failing to provide benefit claimants and others – including Disability News Service (DNS) – with the information it holds about them. The huge backlog dates back months […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have performed a partial U-turn after disabled campaigners reacted angrily to an apparent ban on media requests from Disability News Service (DNS). Last week, DNS reported how DWP’s press office had failed […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stopped answering questions from Disability News Service (DNS), and is refusing to explain why it has taken the “totally unacceptable” step. Since early July, DWP’s press office has failed to provide a meaningful […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of an “appalling” attack on press freedom and disabled people’s rights after blocking a request by Disability News Service (DNS) to interview staff in one of its jobcentres. A leaked memo […]
New figures show that Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants are questioning only a tiny proportion of the benefit assessment reports written by discredited government contractors Atos and Capita. Campaigners have been trying for months to secure evidence that […]
Over the last nine or so years, Disability News Service has broken scores of important stories. Many have been about the austerity-related assault on disability benefits and other support and services. Others have covered the continuing journey towards the realisation of […]