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Emails sent by Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) communications staff reveal how they have grown increasingly frustrated at attempts to hold their bosses to account for years of deaths linked to their treatment of disabled benefit claimants. The information was […]
The minister for social security and disability has publicly attacked a book that exposed decades of “bureaucratic violence” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence was published […]
Senior civil servants and ministers spent more than a decade covering up evidence that links the actions of a government department with hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled people who relied on the social security system. Documents secured through […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that it failed to appoint a chief medical adviser for more than five years, at a time when its policy decisions were causing countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants. The department failed […]
The House of Commons has met its promise to distribute hundreds of copies of a book about Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “bureaucratic violence” to MPs, just as Labour’s chancellor was warning of difficult decisions on “welfare” in the budget. […]
Disabled activists and allies used negotiation and peaceful direct action to ensure that hundreds of copies of a book about decades of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “bureaucratic violence” will reach MPs this week. Their action ensured that every MP […]
Disabled activists are hoping a final push with their crowdfunding campaign will allow copies of a new book about the “violent” history of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to be sent to key politicians across the country. By this […]
Thanks to the success of a crowdfunding initiative, every MP is to receive a copy of a book that investigates how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) caused countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants over the last 14 years. Organisers […]
Disabled activists have launched a bid to raise enough funds to send every Labour MP a copy of a book that exposes the decades of “bureaucratic violence” at the heart of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). They need to […]
Two disabled campaigners whose brothers’ deaths were closely linked to the actions of the outsourcing company Atos have welcomed the announcement that its 20 years of carrying out disability assessments for the government will end next year. From September next year, […]