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Nursing regulator finally clarifies stats on benefit assessment complaints

By John Pring on 27th April 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Nursing regulator finally clarifies stats on benefit assessment complaints
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The nursing regulator has finally clarified how many disabled people have lodged complaints about nurses who have carried out disability benefit assessments for government contractors. The figure produced by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is its third attempt to produce […]

‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers

By John Pring on 16th March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers
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Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the government’s “fitness for work” process has caused a deterioration in many people’s mental health which they have failed to recover from, and has even led to thoughts of suicide. The […]

Maximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions

By John Pring on 9th March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Maximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions
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One of the outsourcing giants paid to assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits appears to have admitted that it is standard practice – approved by the government – to ask claimants with mental health conditions why they failed to […]

G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme

By John Pring on 16th February 2017 Category: Employment

G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme
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Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies are set to win contracts under the government’s new programme to find jobs for disabled people and other marginalised groups. The 11 organisations that have been successful in the bidding process […]

Coroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre

By John Pring on 26th January 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Coroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre
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About 100 activists and their allies have taken part in a protest and vigil to mark the death of a disabled man who died minutes after leaving a jobcentre… six months after a government contractor found him “fit for work”. Lawrence […]

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

By John Pring on 10th November 2016 Category: Employment

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

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

By John Pring on 27th October 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘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, […]

DWP sends woman’s confidential WCA report to privacy campaigner

By John Pring on 29th September 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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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 […]

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

By John Pring on 28th July 2016 Category: Independent Living

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 2nd June 2016 Category: Independent Living

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 […]

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