One in five assessors have not had vital safeguarding training, despite years of DWP deaths One in five staff employed by contractors who carry out disability benefit assessments on the government’s behalf have not had vital safeguarding training, MPs have been told, despite years of deat…

One in five assessors have not had vital safeguarding training, despite years of DWP deaths
#DWP #Safeguarding #DeathsByWelfare
#Maximus #Serco #Ingeus #Capita #Atos
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/one-in-five-...

Watchdog dismisses DWP’s description of DNS editor as ‘vengeful’ and ‘vexatious’ for asking to see deaths email The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain informatio…

Still can't quite get over being called 'vengeful' and 'vexatious' by #DWP for asking for an unredacted email that could reveal details re the department's links with hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths over the last 15 years.
#DeathsByWelfare
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdog-dis...

McFadden admits ministers are working on ‘key areas for improvement’ after years of DWP deaths The work and pensions secretary has admitted to MPs that his department has identified “key areas for improvement” in how it protects benefit claimants from harm, following years of deaths linked t…

McFadden admits ministers are working on ‘key areas for improvement’ after years of #DWP deaths
@patmcfaddenmp.bsky.social
#DeathsByWelfare #NoMoreBenefitDeaths
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‘Shocking’ figures show parents linked to DWP service face death rates up to three times higher Parents who pay to support a child through the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its Child Maintenance Service (CMS) face death rates up to three times higher than others the same age, acc…

‘Shocking’ figures show parents linked to DWP service face death rates up to three times higher
#DWP #ChildMaintenanceService #DeathsByWelfare
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/shocking-fig...

New publications ask how disabled people and allies can hold the state to account for welfare state killings A new series of resources examines ways in which disabled people and allies can find ways to hold the state to account for the deaths of hundreds – and probably thousands – of claimants it has kill…

New publications ask how disabled people and allies can hold the state to account for welfare state killings
#DeathsByWelfare #DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-publicat...

‘DWP were pushing, pushing, pushing my wife to kill herself, but nothing has been done’ A grieving widower has accused the disability minister of trying to erase the role of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in his wife’s suicide. An ombudsman concluded earlier this year that…

‘DWP were pushing, pushing, pushing my wife to kill herself, but nothing has been done’
#BenefitDeaths #DeathsByWelfare #DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-were-pus...

DWP ‘shamefully’ failed to track its response to secret advice on cutting suicides The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has “shamefully” failed to keep a record of how it responded to a secret report that called for it to reduce suicides of benefit claimants and other “very…

DWP ‘shamefully’ failed to track its response to secret advice on cutting suicides
#DWP #DeathsByWelfare
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-shameful...

Tribunal allows DWP to continue to hide information from secret reviews into universal credit deaths A tribunal has allowed ministers to continue to hide vital information from scores of secret reports into deaths of universal credit claimants, just as they publish a new bill that will have a majo…

Tribunal allows DWP to continue to hide information from secret reviews into universal credit deaths
#UniversalCredit #DWP #DeathsByWelfare
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tribunal-all...

Death by Welfare — Material Crimes Death by Welfare On Tothill Street, in the heart of London’s Whitehall, sits Caxton House, home to the Department for Work and Pensions. The DWP...

Please listen to this podcast from my brilliant colleague @ChinaTMills on how #DWP 'systematically dehumanised' benefit claimants over the last 20 years. Based on her brilliant #DeathsByWelfare work.
It's part of the @survivesocpod Material Crimes series.