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Government admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries

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

Government admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries
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The government failed for more than three years to keep a record of what actions it took – if any – after carrying out secret reviews into the suicides of benefit claimants, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. The Department for […]

Information commissioner questions DWP’s ‘highly unusual’ failure on benefit deaths

By John Pring on 2nd March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Information commissioner questions DWP’s ‘highly unusual’ failure on benefit deaths
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The information commissioner has questioned why the government failed to keep track of whether it had implemented recommendations on improving the safety of “vulnerable” disabled people that had been made in its own secret reports into benefit-related deaths. Elizabeth Denham said […]

Opposition parties call for inquiry into ministers’ WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 5th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Opposition parties call for inquiry into ministers’ WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Three opposition parties have called for an independent inquiry into claims that ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their “fitness for work” test. The apparent cover-up was […]

Ministers hid secret death reports from their ‘fitness for work’ test reviewer

By John Pring on 22nd December 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers hid secret death reports from their ‘fitness for work’ test reviewer
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Government ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their much-criticised “fitness for work” assessment, new evidence suggests. A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) response to a Disability […]

DWP hides seven secret benefit suicide reviews

By John Pring on 25th August 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hides seven secret benefit suicide reviews
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to publish nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, despite finally admitting that seven of them relate to people who took their own lives. DWP only released the information after […]

Ministers ‘breach FoI laws’ by delaying release of fresh benefit deaths reviews

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers ‘breach FoI laws’ by delaying release of fresh benefit deaths reviews
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Ministers are delaying the release of nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, even though civil servants apparently prepared them for release three weeks ago under freedom of information laws. A response to a request to release redacted versions […]

How a single word shows DWP has finally owned up on benefit deaths

By John Pring on 19th May 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

How a single word shows DWP has finally owned up on benefit deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally admitted that it could be partly responsible for the deaths of some benefit claimants. The admission came – quietly – after its release of heavily-redacted versions of 49 secret “peer reviews” into […]

Ministers refuse to say if they implemented 10 measures to save lives

By John Pring on 19th May 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers refuse to say if they implemented 10 measures to save lives
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Ministers have refused to say if they implemented 10 measures – recommended by their own civil servants – that would have made it less likely that “vulnerable” benefit claimants would lose their lives. The 10 recommendations were taken from some of […]

COMMENT: Long-awaited peer reviews suggest ministers failed to act after deaths of ‘vulnerable’ claimants

By John Pring on 14th May 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

COMMENT: Long-awaited peer reviews suggest ministers failed to act after deaths of ‘vulnerable’ claimants
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After 21 months of smokescreens excuses, obstruction and secrecy, work and pensions ministers have finally been forced to publish some of the conclusions reached by their own civil servants about the mistakes that led to 49 benefit claimants losing their lives. […]

DWP secrecy over benefit-related suicides

By John Pring on 10th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP secrecy over benefit-related suicides
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Civil servants have refused to release information that would show how many secret reviews the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out into benefit-related suicides in the last 15 months. The refusal emerged in a response to a freedom […]

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