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SEN improvements ‘could see tens of thousands more disabled children educated in mainstream schools’

By John Pring on 31st October 2024 Category: Education

SEN improvements ‘could see tens of thousands more disabled children educated in mainstream schools’
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Tens of thousands more disabled children could have their needs met in a mainstream setting rather than a special school, if there were major improvements to the special educational needs (SEN) system, a report published by the government has found. The […]

‘Dangerous’ rollout of universal credit ‘poses threat’ to disabled claimants

By John Pring on 18th April 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Dangerous’ rollout of universal credit ‘poses threat’ to disabled claimants
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The “dangerous” rollout of universal credit to half a million more claimants is a potential threat to the “safety and well-being” of disabled people who currently rely on so-called “legacy” benefits to survive, disability campaigners have warned. Tens of thousands of […]

DWP faces cover-up claims after secretly weakening suicide rules

By John Pring on 22nd February 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP faces cover-up claims after secretly weakening suicide rules
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing allegations of another cover-up after the minutes of a panel set up to examine “serious cases” failed to mention that rules on when to investigate benefit claimant suicides had been weakened.   […]

DWP secretly weakened guidance on suicides, one year after public pledge

By John Pring on 15th February 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP secretly weakened guidance on suicides, one year after public pledge
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has secretly weakened its own rules on when it should investigate the deaths of benefit claimants who take their own lives. Four years ago, the department told the National Audit Office (NAO) that it […]

DWP admits: We’re too slow, too inaccurate, too costly, and claimants don’t trust us

By John Pring on 29th June 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits: We’re too slow, too inaccurate, too costly, and claimants don’t trust us
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted to the public spending watchdog that its system of disability benefits assessments is too slow, too expensive and too inaccurate, and too many claimants do not trust how it makes decisions. The […]

Planning failure ‘meant government had to start shielding scheme from scratch’

By John Pring on 11th February 2021 Category: Independent Living

Planning failure ‘meant government had to start shielding scheme from scratch’
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The government’s failure to prepare for disabled people needing to shield from a pandemic meant they had to develop a shielding scheme from scratch at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the spending watchdog has found. In a new report, the […]

Call for action over ‘scandal’ of benefit claimant suicides ignored by DWP

By John Pring on 17th December 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for action over ‘scandal’ of benefit claimant suicides ignored by DWP
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is failing to investigate the suicides of hundreds of benefit claimants every year, despite the vital lessons it could learn from such inquiries, new analysis of official figures suggests. In more than five years, […]

DWP refuses to release two reports by coroners into deaths of benefit claimants

By John Pring on 12th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP refuses to release two reports by coroners into deaths of benefit claimants
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Ministers are refusing to release details of two reports into the deaths of benefit claimants in which coroners warned that more disabled people could die if the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to take urgent action. DWP has admitted […]

DWP admits destroying secret reports into benefit-related deaths

By John Pring on 27th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits destroying secret reports into benefit-related deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted destroying its own secret reports into suicides and other deaths of benefit claimants. The admission has added to growing calls for an independent inquiry into links between DWP policies and procedures and […]

Letter shows ‘appalling’ DWP misled two watchdogs over benefit deaths

By John Pring on 13th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Letter shows ‘appalling’ DWP misled two watchdogs over benefit deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been failing to track recommendations made by its own secret reviews into benefit-related deaths, it has told the spending watchdog, three years after claiming it had corrected the same failings. The “appalling” revelation […]

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