Stephen Carre

Benefits and Poverty

Paul Litchfield giving evidence to a Commons committee

April 26, 2018 0

DWP ‘failed to show WCA reviewer evidence of links to benefit deaths’

The Department for Work and Pensions appears to have admitted failing to show vital documents that linked its “fitness for work” assessment with the deaths of benefit claimants to an independent expert it hired to review the test. Dr Paul Litchfield published the final two independent reviews of the work capability assessment (WCA) in

Politics

Stephen Carre smiling and stroking a black cat

December 1, 2016

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DWP media reports ignore benefit deaths… and IDS resignation

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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants ignored media coverage that exposed how ministers’ policies had led to the deaths of benefit claimants, in a series of confidential reports for their bosses. The DWP Media Evaluation reports, obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) following a freedom of information request, show how the department’s

Crime

Iain Duncan Smith shaking hands with a woman

October 6, 2016

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Duncan Smith tells DNS: ‘I’m not going to be accused by you’ over mental health deaths

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Iain Duncan Smith has denied responsibility for the deaths of people with mental health conditions who took their own lives after being unfairly found fit for work by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Duncan Smith was speaking to Disability News Service (DNS) at the Tory party annual conference in Birmingham about his

Crime

May 5, 2016

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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

Crime

March 24, 2016

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Duncan Smith and Grayling ‘must face criminal probe’ over WCA deaths

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Disabled activists are calling for Iain Duncan Smith to face a criminal investigation over his refusal to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for work” test, which led to “countless deaths” over the last six years. They want to hold Duncan Smith – and his former employment minister Chris Grayling

Crime

March 24, 2016

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Activists say why Duncan Smith and Grayling ‘must face criminal justice system’

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Disabled activists and disabled people’s organisations have explained why they are backing a call for two former work and pensions ministers to face a criminal investigation for misconduct in public office. Many of the country’s leading disabled campaigners have spoken out in the wake of the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith as work and

Benefits and Poverty

March 17, 2016

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Yvette Cooper slams ‘appalling’ failure of ministers to act over coroner’s letter

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Labour’s former work and pensions secretary has attacked Tory ministers for failing to order an urgent review of the “fitness for work” test after a coroner warned that it had triggered a disabled man’s suicide. Yvette Cooper has told Disability News Service that the failure of work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith and

Benefits and Poverty

March 17, 2016

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DWP dismissed coroner’s concerns over WCA suicide link, document reveals

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Civil servants and ministers dismissed a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the government’s “fitness for work” test, according to a draft response that apparently lay in Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) files for six years. Coroner Tom Osborne wrote a letter – under the “prevention of future deaths” process – to DWP

Benefits and Poverty

A wheelchair-user sits in front of a stage, while the grass is covered by white flowers

February 25, 2016

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DNS to ask tribunal to force DWP to publish secret benefit deaths information

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Disability News Service (DNS) will this week ask a tribunal to require the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish information about secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of 49 benefit claimants. DNS has been trying since August 2014 to find out what actions ministers took in the wake of deaths

Benefits and Poverty

February 25, 2016

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Duncan Smith and Grayling silent over links to WCA suicide reports

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Ministers and senior civil servants are refusing to say if they approved documents drawn up following the suicides of two disabled men that were connected to flaws in the government’s “fitness for work” test. Last week, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claimed it had unearthed a “draft” report that was written in

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