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Prevention of future deaths

Information commissioner orders DWP to release safeguarding review findings

By John Pring on 10th March 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Information commissioner orders DWP to release safeguarding review findings
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The information commissioner has ordered the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release the results of a review of its safeguarding procedures, which it has been trying to keep secret for the last two years. The existence of the review […]

DWP snubs coroner’s call for change after severely-ill patient was told to visit jobcentre

By John Pring on 24th February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP snubs coroner’s call for change after severely-ill patient was told to visit jobcentre
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to “make any changes”, despite admitting that a disabled patient was told to leave hospital to visit a jobcentre when he was severely ill with a condition that later killed him. The […]

Coroner: DWP ‘must act’ after it told severely ill patient to leave hospital to make claim

By John Pring on 6th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coroner: DWP ‘must act’ after it told severely ill patient to leave hospital to make claim
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A coroner has called on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to make urgent policy changes, after it ordered a disabled patient to leave hospital to visit a jobcentre despite being severely ill with a condition that later killed him. […]

Philippa Day’s sister pledges to continue fight for justice, after DWP’s PIP changes

By John Pring on 3rd June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Philippa Day’s sister pledges to continue fight for justice, after DWP’s PIP changes
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The sister of a disabled woman whose death was caused by widespread flaws in the benefits system has vowed to continue her family’s fight for justice, after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced changes in response to the tragedy. […]

DWP ignored coroner’s call to take action to save claimants from suicide

By John Pring on 16th July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ignored coroner’s call to take action to save claimants from suicide
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rejected a coroner’s call to act to prevent benefit claimants taking their own lives, following the suicide of a young woman who had told her work coach that she intended to kill herself. Documents […]

DWP secrecy over panel that examines its own fatal errors

By John Pring on 9th July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP secrecy over panel that examines its own fatal errors
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Work and pensions ministers are refusing to release key details of the panel they set up last year to examine deaths linked to the actions of their own department. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was forced to admit in […]

Net closing on government departments that refuse to publish deaths reports

By John Pring on 21st May 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Net closing on government departments that refuse to publish deaths reports
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The government is facing calls to publish two coroners’ reports that link the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) with the deaths of benefit claimants. New information shows that the missing reports were written by coroners in 2015 and 2016, but […]

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 […]

DWP’s silence over drug misuse death of PIP claimant, despite coroner’s letter

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

DWP’s silence over drug misuse death of PIP claimant, despite coroner’s letter
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A coroner told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to take urgent steps to prevent further deaths after a disabled man with a history of drug misuse died two months after receiving a huge back-payment in disability benefits. It is […]

Errol Graham: Coroner pledges to press DWP on safeguarding review

By John Pring on 20th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Errol Graham: Coroner pledges to press DWP on safeguarding review
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The coroner who heard an inquest into a man who starved to death after his benefits were wrongly removed is to press the government for information about a promised review into how it protects “vulnerable” claimants. Dr Elizabeth Didcock, Nottingham’s assistant […]

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