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Coffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides

By John Pring on 20th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) watered down key parts of a plan drawn up to prevent suicides and learn lessons from claimant deaths, while under the leadership of deputy prime minister Therese Coffey, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. […]

DWP ‘ignored five weeks of pleas for help from suicidal claimant’

By John Pring on 9th June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘ignored five weeks of pleas for help from suicidal claimant’
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A severely distressed disabled man who repeatedly warned Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff that his life was at risk says they refused to take action to protect him, breaching their own guidance on suicidal benefit claimants. Finn Jaradd says […]

‘Severely neglected’ man found dead, three months after DWP assessment

By John Pring on 19th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Severely neglected’ man found dead, three months after DWP assessment
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to alert GPs and social services to the “very extensive” difficulties a disabled man was facing, three months before he died in conditions of severe self-neglect. A safeguarding review of the death of […]

Trio of disabled women shame DWP with parliamentary call for action on safety

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

Trio of disabled women shame DWP with parliamentary call for action on safety
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Three disabled women whose relatives have died because of failings by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have told a parliamentary meeting of the need for urgent safety improvements to the social security system. Imogen Day, Alison Burton and Joy […]

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 told to review ‘inadequate’ support for ‘vulnerable’ benefit claimants

By John Pring on 13th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP told to review ‘inadequate’ support for ‘vulnerable’ benefit claimants
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been told its support for “vulnerable” benefit claimants is “inadequate” and must be re-examined, after a review found it failed a man with learning difficulties who was repeatedly exposed to family violence. The […]

Families outraged after government hands ‘sickening’ award to DWP safeguarding team

By John Pring on 11th November 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Families outraged after government hands ‘sickening’ award to DWP safeguarding team
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The government handed its own disability benefits safeguarding team an “outstanding contribution” award, just weeks after a coroner found that flaws in the disability benefits system had caused the death of a young disabled mum. The award was made by the […]

Jodey Whiting: Judge asks why DWP failed to ‘pick up a phone’ before claimant’s suicide

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: Judge asks why DWP failed to ‘pick up a phone’ before claimant’s suicide
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A high court judge has asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) why it did not take the “common sense” step of phoning a disabled woman with a long history of mental distress – who later took her own life […]

Secret report casts doubt on DWP’s ‘no duty of care’ claim

By John Pring on 11th February 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret report casts doubt on DWP’s ‘no duty of care’ claim
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been unable to explain why its secretary of state continues to insist that it has no legal “duty of care” to disabled benefit claimants, when one of its own secret reports states clearly […]

Errol Graham: Family win right to court challenge of DWP safeguarding

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

Errol Graham: Family win right to court challenge of DWP safeguarding
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The family of a man who starved to death after his out-of-work disability benefits were wrongly removed have won the right to have the safeguarding policies of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) examined by the high court. The family of […]

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