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The government’s Access to Work scheme is plagued by multiple failings, including lengthy delays – which risk disabled people losing their jobs – poor communication, and an inaccessible process, a committee of MPs has concluded. The Commons public accounts committee found […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to release a secret internal report that is likely to expose the flaws and failings at the heart of its under-fire Access to Work disability employment scheme. It is the department’s latest […]
The Access to Work scheme is failing Deaf and disabled people, and its “decline” in the last two years has caused them “real harm”, with some support packages cut by 80 per cent, according to a detailed dossier of evidence prepared […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]