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Prevention of future deaths

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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