Stephen Carre

Benefits and Poverty

February 18, 2016

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Stephen Carré scandal: DWP ‘finds’ draft report that was never sent to coroner

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has unearthed a “draft” report that ministers failed to send to a coroner six years ago, following concerns he raised about a suicide linked to flaws in the “fitness for work” test. The draft report has finally emerged more than three months after Disability News Service (DNS)

Politics

February 11, 2016

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Abrahams drags New Labour into Stephen Carré suicide report cover-up

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The shadow minister for disabled people has implicated New Labour in an apparent cover-up of the government’s failure to respond to a coroner’s report on the suicide of a disabled man found “fit for work”. Debbie Abrahams has repeatedly refused to criticise – or even comment on – the failure of Iain Duncan Smith

Benefits and Poverty

February 4, 2016

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Government departments and judiciary in ‘fit for work’ suicide ‘cover-up’

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Two government departments – and the judiciary – appear to be conspiring to prevent the release of information that would show how ministers ignored an opportunity to prevent the “fitness for work” test causing disabled claimants to take their own lives. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been asked key questions about

Politics

February 4, 2016

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Disabled ex-Lib Dem MP backs IDS over WCA suicide report ‘cover-up’

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A disabled former Liberal Democrat MP has refused to criticise the Tory work and pensions secretary for covering up a report that linked the “fitness for work” test with a disabled man’s suicide. Stephen Lloyd, who narrowly lost his Eastbourne seat at last year’s general election, was a supporter of many of Iain Duncan

Benefits and Poverty

January 28, 2016

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Justice ministry refuses to probe DWP’s WCA suicide report ‘cover-up’

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The Ministry of Justice is refusing to investigate why the Department for Work and Pensions failed to fulfil its legal duty to respond to a coroner’s report that linked a disabled man’s suicide to its “fitness for work” test. The coroner’s report was written in late March 2010 following an inquest into the death

Benefits and Poverty

December 18, 2015

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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 suggest the department was given all the information it needed to carry out

Benefits and Poverty

November 20, 2015

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Government, health unions and Maximus all silent over ‘590 WCA suicides’

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The Department of Health, doctors’ and nurses’ unions and the contractors paid to carry out the assessments have refused to pledge to take any action following new research linking the government’s “fitness for work” test with about 600 suicides. The study funded by the National Institute for Health Research – which itself is funded

Benefits and Poverty

November 13, 2015

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Stephen Carre WCA scandal: Tory ministers ‘knew their policy was lethal’

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Disabled activists have called for ministers to face a criminal investigation, over their apparent failure to hand a crucial coroner’s report about the discredited “fitness for work” test to their own independent expert. Earlier this week, a Disability News Service (DNS) investigation revealed that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith and employment minister

Benefits and Poverty

November 9, 2015

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WCA death scandal: Ministers ‘failed to pass 2010 suicide report to Harrington’

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Ministers appear to have failed to hand a crucial report about the work capability assessment – warning it put at risk the lives of thousands of people with mental health conditions – to the expert they commissioned to review the test. An investigation by Disability News Service (DNS) suggests that work and pensions secretary

Benefits and Poverty

Head and shoulders of Chris Grayling talking

November 9, 2015

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WCA death scandal: Grayling ordered assessment roll-out, despite coroner’s warning

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Ministers appear to have allowed a controversial disability benefits assessment to be rolled out to hundreds of thousands of long-term claimants with mental health conditions, even though a coroner had warned it was a threat to their lives. Employment minister Chris Grayling (pictured) and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith decided in the summer of

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