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DWP’s chief medical adviser downplays her department’s links to countless deaths… again

By John Pring on 13th February 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s chief medical adviser downplays her department’s links to countless deaths… again
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The chief medical adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has sparked fresh anger after again publicly downplaying links between the deaths of disabled benefit claimants and her own department’s actions. Dr Gail Allsopp (pictured), who was appointed to the […]

DWP’s chief medical adviser dismisses importance of her own department’s reviews into benefit deaths

By John Pring on 9th January 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s chief medical adviser dismisses importance of her own department’s reviews into benefit deaths
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The chief medical adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over why she dismissed the importance of hundreds of secret reviews carried out by her own department into the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. Dr Gail […]

Labour’s DWP team ‘split’ over universal credit safety

By John Pring on 14th March 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour’s DWP team ‘split’ over universal credit safety
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Labour’s work and pensions team appears to be split over whether the party should pledge to act on serious concerns about the safety of the universal credit working-age benefits system. The party’s shadow minister for disabled people, Vicky Foxcroft, told Disability […]

Foxcroft statement suggests she failed to read coroners’ reports into claimant suicides

By John Pring on 7th March 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Foxcroft statement suggests she failed to read coroners’ reports into claimant suicides
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Labour’s shadow disability minister has been asked why she apparently failed to read two reports by coroners that raised serious safeguarding concerns about the impact of universal credit on disabled people. Vicky Foxcroft had been asked about Labour’s failure to address […]

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 […]

RoFA urges watchdog to act over DWP benefit deaths links

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

RoFA urges watchdog to act over DWP benefit deaths links
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Disabled campaigners are pushing the human rights watchdog to take legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over its links to the avoidable deaths of disabled people claiming benefits. The Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (RoFA) and Disabled People […]

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