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 […]
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Maximus company ‘lied’ about user-involvement in inspection contracts
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
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 […]
‘Serious failings’ in disability assessments, despite payments of £500 million a year
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 […]
Life under Maximus for CQC’s service-user experts: Chaos, cuts and ‘playschool ID cards’
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 […]
Maximus ‘has falsified results of fitness for work tests’, says MP
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 […]
Protesters to march on GP surgery over Maximus job coach project
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 […]
Atos, Maximus and Capita forced to admit assessment failures
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 […]
Care watchdog to subsidise Maximus plans to halve pay of disabled experts
The care watchdog wants to use government funds to subsidise a discredited US outsourcing giant’s plans to slash the pay of disabled expert advisors by more than half. Two of three new contracts to run the Experts by Experience (EbE) programme […]
Maximus-owned Remploy slashes pay of disabled experts by half
The care watchdog has allowed a US outsourcing giant to slash the pay of disabled people by more than half when it takes over two contracts to manage service-users who work as expert advisers on care home and hospital inspections. Two […]