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Iain Duncan Smith shaking hands with a woman

December 22, 2016

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Criminal justice agencies reject call to investigate Duncan Smith’s WCA failings

Scottish criminal justice agencies have rejected pleas to investigate the failure of two ministers to improve the safety of the government’s “fitness for work” test, despite evidence that their actions caused the deaths of at least three benefit claimants. Police Scotland was asked in March to investigate allegations of “wilful neglect of duty” by

Parents of ‘fit for work’ suicide man back call for Iain Duncan Smith prosecution

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The parents of a disabled man who took his own life after being wrongly found “fit for work” have backed attempts to persuade Scottish police to investigate the actions of former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith. David and Maureen Barr have both told Disability News Service (DNS) that Duncan Smith and former

Scottish police assessing possible investigation into IDS and Grayling

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Scottish police are assessing whether to launch a criminal investigation into the failure of two government ministers to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for work” test a failure which may have caused “countless deaths”. Disabled activist John McArdle, co-founder of the user-led campaign network Black Triangle, lodged a complaint

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Criminal justice agencies reject call to investigate Duncan Smith’s WCA failings

Parents of ‘fit for work’ suicide man back call for Iain Duncan Smith prosecution

Scottish police assessing possible investigation into IDS and Grayling