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Prevention of future deaths

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 […]

Caxton House cover-up: DWP hid benefit deaths papers from WCA review team

By John Pring on 9th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Caxton House cover-up: DWP hid benefit deaths papers from WCA review team
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted failing to send its own independent reviewer documents that ministers knew would have linked their fitness for work test with the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. Following intervention from the Information Commissioner’s […]

Care watchdog ‘fails to follow up on coroners’ death warnings’

By John Pring on 27th October 2016 Category: Independent Living

Care watchdog ‘fails to follow up on coroners’ death warnings’
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The care watchdog is failing to order urgent inspections of care homes, despite coroners warning that urgent action must be taken to prevent further deaths of the disabled and older people who live there, an NHS whistleblower has found. Coroners publish […]

New evidence suggests DWP covered up coroner’s WCA warning

By John Pring on 18th December 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

New evidence suggests DWP covered up coroner’s WCA warning
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Damning new evidence suggests that senior figures in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) covered up a coroner’s warning about the grave dangers posed by a new disability assessment. Disability News Service (DNS) has seen a series of letters that […]

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