the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues
Ministers have refused to include claimants of out-of-work disability benefits as a high-risk group in their latest suicide prevention strategy, despite “irrefutable evidence” from NHS research. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has listed “common risk factors” such as […]
Ministers have failed to include the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in a new cross-government plan aimed at reducing suicides, despite years of evidence linking such deaths with the disability benefits system and social security reforms. The Department of Health […]
The head of the government’s national suicide prevention strategy has refused to call on the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to highlight the high risk of suicide faced by people who receive out-of-work disability benefits. Louis Appleby, a professor […]