The government is refusing to release information that would reveal which ministers and civil servants decided how to respond to the death of a man who killed himself as a direct result of being found “fit for work”. Disability News Service […]
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‘Fitness for work test and sanctions helped kill my brother’
Disability Rights UK wins contract to teach equality to Maximus
Michael O’Sullivan inquest: Chief coroner silent over WCA ‘future deaths’ reports
New ‘fitness for work’ firm ‘discriminates against disabled staff’
IDS announces ‘fitness for work’ U-turn that was five years in the making
Long-awaited deaths stats ‘do not tell the whole story’
New claims of Atos assessment lies are ‘tip of a massive iceberg’
Report finds evidence to back ‘real world’ alternative to ‘toxic’ WCA
A new report has called for the “toxic” work capability assessment (WCA) to be scrapped and replaced with something that paints a more realistic picture of the barriers disabled people face in society. The Rethinking the Work Capability Assessment report, by […]