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Health and safety watchdog explains for first time why it refuses to investigate DWP deaths

By John Pring on 13th August 2026 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Health and safety watchdog explains for first time why it refuses to investigate DWP deaths
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The health and safety watchdog has explained for the first time why it has never investigated the hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled benefit claimants linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over the last 16 years. […]

Disabled MP asks health and safety watchdog why it has never investigated DWP’s links to hundreds of deaths

By John Pring on 6th February 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled MP asks health and safety watchdog why it has never investigated DWP’s links to hundreds of deaths
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The boss of the health and safety watchdog has been asked by a disabled MP why her organisation has never investigated the government’s “fitness for work” test, even though it was linked to nearly 600 suicides in less than three years. […]

Health and safety watchdog failed to quiz DWP on jobcentre mental health concerns

By John Pring on 11th January 2024 Category: Employment

Health and safety watchdog failed to quiz DWP on jobcentre mental health concerns
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The agency that regulates workplace health, safety and welfare had no written contact with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) about claims that multiple work coaches had experienced “mental breakdowns” due to work-related stress, DWP has confirmed. The Health and […]

‘Toxic’ DWP ‘caused mental health collapse’ in one third of jobcentre team in a year

By John Pring on 2nd November 2023 Category: Employment

‘Toxic’ DWP ‘caused mental health collapse’ in one third of jobcentre team in a year
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More than a third of the work coaches on a single floor of a jobcentre experienced a mental health crisis in less than a year, due to the “dysfunctional” Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its “toxic” policies, whistleblowers have […]

Health and safety regulator twice refused to probe multiple jobcentre ‘breakdowns’

By John Pring on 2nd November 2023 Category: Employment

Health and safety regulator twice refused to probe multiple jobcentre ‘breakdowns’
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) twice refused to launch an investigation into serious concerns that multiple work coaches on the same floor of a city centre jobcentre had experienced “mental breakdowns” because of work-related stress. The agency was told in […]

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