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‘Deep concern’ over decision to allow Treasury to hide budget equality impact

By John Pring on 22nd June 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘Deep concern’ over decision to allow Treasury to hide budget equality impact
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Campaigners have told the information commissioner of their “deep concern” over his decision to allow the Treasury to hide information that would show how last year’s budget was set to impact disabled people and other equality groups. Women’s Budget Group, Runnymede […]

DWP finally admits nearly all its websites were rated ‘very high risk’ on access

By John Pring on 15th June 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP finally admits nearly all its websites were rated ‘very high risk’ on access
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally admitted that nearly all its high-profile websites were rated as being inaccessible to many disabled people and potentially breaking the law. It has taken more than a year – and intervention from […]

Watchdog gives Treasury go-ahead to keep budget equality impact secret

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Politics

Watchdog gives Treasury go-ahead to keep budget equality impact secret
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The information commissioner has told the Treasury it can continue to hide information that would show how measures in a controversial spring budget were predicted to affect disabled people and other groups protected by the Equality Act. Disability News Service (DNS) […]

Watchdog warns DWP over repeated failure on freedom of information laws

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Watchdog warns DWP over repeated failure on freedom of information laws
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been warned by the information commissioner for “systemically failing to comply with the law” over how it has dealt with requests for information on disability benefits, universal credit and claimant deaths. The Information […]

DWP backs down in legal case over release of secret death reports

By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP backs down in legal case over release of secret death reports
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has backed down in its fight to hide recommendations made in 22 secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants. Ministers had been told by the information commissioner to release the recommendations to Disability […]

DWP unlawfully prevented release of secret benefit deaths reviews, regulator rules

By John Pring on 27th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP unlawfully prevented release of secret benefit deaths reviews, regulator rules
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unlawfully prevented the release of secret reports into the deaths of at least 20 benefit claimants, the information commissioner has ruled. The commissioner, John Edwards, has found that DWP breached the Freedom of Information […]

Information commissioner rules DNS was not ‘vexatious’ in DWP universal credit request

By John Pring on 7th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Information commissioner rules DNS was not ‘vexatious’ in DWP universal credit request
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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. […]

DWP repeatedly failed to provide data requested by DNS and others, says regulator

By John Pring on 19th November 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP repeatedly failed to provide data requested by DNS and others, says regulator
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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 […]

Government uses loophole to block inquiry on civil servant sex abuse evidence

By John Pring on 29th October 2020 Category: Crime

Government uses loophole to block inquiry on civil servant sex abuse evidence
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The government has used a freedom of information loophole to hide evidence that would show if a former senior civil servant – later arrested over two unconnected rape allegations – helped block laws that would have protected disabled people from sex […]

Nursing home probed after residents’ personal details are found in the street

By John Pring on 19th March 2020 Category: Human Rights

Nursing home probed after residents’ personal details are found in the street
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A nursing home is facing an investigation into a “very serious” breach of data protection laws, after detailed personal information about its 36 disabled residents was apparently found in the street. The four-page document contains the names of all 36 residents […]

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