Maximus

Employment

Extract from membership list showing Boobylicious

November 10, 2016

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What do Remploy, Capita and Maximus have in common? They’re all Disability Confident

A company that tried to halve its disabled advisors’ pay; a religious order responsible for decades of abuse of disabled people; and a police force facing two discrimination inquiries… are just three of the employers that have described themselves as “disability confident”. The trio are a sample of more than 2,400 organisations that have

Benefits and Poverty

October 27, 2016

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‘Grave concern’ over coroner’s refusal to hold inquest into Maximus WRAG death

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A coroner has refused to hold an inquest into the death of a disabled man who had a fatal heart attack an hour after being told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was threatening to stop his benefits. Alan McArdle, who had previously been homeless but was living in council accommodation in Slough,

Benefits and Poverty

Sign at entrance to Department for Work and Pensions

September 29, 2016

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DWP sends woman’s confidential WCA report to privacy campaigner

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A disabled benefit claimant is set to lodge a complaint with the information commissioner after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) sent him highly confidential medical details belonging to another benefit claimant. The man was sent the report, written by an assessor working for the US outsourcing giant Maximus, even though he had

Independent Living

July 28, 2016

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Maximus company ‘lied’ about user-involvement in inspection contracts

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A company controlled by the disgraced US outsourcing giant Maximus apparently lied when it promised that user-led organisations would help it deliver a vital part of the care watchdog’s inspection programme, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. Late last year, Remploy – the disability employment business formerly owned by the government but now mostly

Independent Living

June 2, 2016

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Cancelled inspections by care watchdog rise 360 per cent in one year

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The number of inspections by the social care regulator that are cancelled or rescheduled every month has risen by more than 360 per cent in just one year, the watchdog’s own figures have revealed. The figures – revealed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following a freedom of information request by Disability News Service

Benefits and Poverty

Leslie Wolfe giving evidence in parliament

April 7, 2016

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‘Serious failings’ in disability assessments, despite payments of £500 million a year

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There are still “serious failings” with the disability assessments contracted out by the government, even though it is paying outsourcing giants half a billion pounds a year to carry them out, according to a new report by MPs. The Commons public accounts committee says disabled benefit claimants still do not receive an acceptable service

Employment

February 25, 2016

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Life under Maximus for CQC’s service-user experts: Chaos, cuts and ‘playschool ID cards’

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The care watchdog’s decision to ask a discredited US outsourcing giant to manage its disabled expert advisers has led to confusion, cutbacks and a stream of resignations, Disability News Service (DNS) has been told. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) decided earlier this month to pass three of four regional contracts to run the Experts

Benefits and Poverty

February 11, 2016

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Maximus ‘has falsified results of fitness for work tests’, says MP

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The discredited US outsourcing giant contracted to carry out “fitness for work” tests on behalf of the government has been accused by an MP of “falsifying” the results of assessments. Labour MP Louise Haigh attacked the track record, ethics and even criminal behaviour of Maximus in delivering public contracts in the US, during a

Activism and Campaigning

February 4, 2016

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Protesters to march on GP surgery over Maximus job coach project

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Disabled activists are to march on a surgery next month in protest at its involvement in a government scheme that is placing welfare-to-work advisors from a discredited US outsourcing giant in GP practices. Six surgeries in Islington, north London, are taking part in the year-long pilot scheme run and funded by the Department for

Benefits and Poverty

February 4, 2016

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Atos, Maximus and Capita forced to admit assessment failures

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The three companies that carry out disability benefit assessments for the government have all been forced to admit regret at the poor quality of their work, while giving evidence to a committee of MPs. Senior executives from Maximus, Atos and Capita were providing evidence to the public accounts committee, following a highly critical report

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