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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2020 10:43:11 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2020 13:11:22 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2020 10:05:53 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2020 17:18:04 GMT
Benefit assessment companies ‘have made almost no progress’ on safeguarding By John Pring on 26th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty www.disabilitynewsservice.com/benefit-assessment-companies-have-made-almost-no-progress-on-safeguarding/The three companies that carry out disability benefit assessments for the government have made almost no progress in the last year on alerting local authorities to concerns about claimants whose safety is at risk, according to a disabled campaigner. Last year, freedom of information responses from more than a third of councils across England, Scotland and Wales showed that Atos, Capita and Maximus had made just four safeguarding referrals to those local authorities over the previous three years. Now a fresh series of freedom of information requests has shown the three outsourcing giants appear to have taken barely any notice of those concerns. Maximus healthcare professionals assess eligibility for employment and support allowance, while Capita and Atos carry out personal independence payment (PIP) assessments, and all of them carry out hundreds of thousands of face-to-face assessments every year. But despite repeated warnings about the need to inform social services departments when there are clear and significant concerns about a claimant’s safety or welfare, they issued a total of just two referrals each during 2019 and the first month of 2020 across 89 councils. The figures have been compiled by former safeguarding expert Mike Owen, and they relate to the 89 local authorities that have so far responded to his freedom of information requests. This is nearly half of the local authorities across England, Wales and Scotland with social services responsibilities. He said it was clear the three companies were “not doing enough” to safeguard the claimants they were assessing.
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2020 10:52:18 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2020 10:47:30 GMT
8 April 2020 Update Some Disabled Claimants Could Be Thousands Worse Off, Charities Warn, Plus Free Benefits Webinars On The Way www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/4203-7-april-2020-updateAfter the blizzard of benefits news in the last edition, things have become much quieter, with parliament in recess and the nation gripped by the unfolding crisis. However, there’s a warning from the Disability Benefits Consortium that some disabled claimants could be thousands of pounds a year worse off because of coronavirus. And plans to improve the benefits system for disabled claimants in Scotland have had to be put on hold. But we have the good news that some claimants will see more money in their bank accounts, as the DWP suspend recovery of overpayments. And there’s also a welcome relaxation to the rules around carers allowance. Finally, we’ll be running some free short webinars over the coming weeks. The first will be about PIP changes, but we’d like your suggestions for webinar topics for the future.
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2020 22:13:03 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2020 18:20:47 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 5, 2020 14:30:38 GMT
Not just the sick & disabled who'll be screwed anymore - people can't say they weren't warned - Coronavirus: 60,000 families forced onto Universal Credit 'to be hit' by two child limit Ministers have refused to temporarily scrap the policy - which will leave families claiming because of illness and job losses denied support for any more than two children www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/coronavirus-60000-families-forced-onto-21973487
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Post by Admin on May 5, 2020 20:37:03 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 9, 2020 3:44:53 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 9, 2020 17:03:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 20:15:54 GMT
Having read the abstract in the link, I think countries should advocate for bipartisan effort to solve the problems of the poor. Bipartisan, to me, means regardless of political affiliation. The parties need to work together, hashing it out, debating, getting their political hands dirty, in order to come up with a solution that neither side could have come up with on their own.
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Post by Admin on May 16, 2020 2:58:06 GMT
It's an interesting observation - 10 years of Tory Austerity, cuts & welfare 'reforms' that has blamed & targeted for the 2008 financial crash caused by bankers; the most vulnerable in society - the poor, sick, mentally & physically disabled, the mentally ill, recidivists, addicts & homeless - killing at least 130 thousand of them. i never saw much outrage about it all, now the consequences of it all is starting to impact the 'normal's', compounded by the pandemic & it's a whole different story, in the media & society.
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Post by Admin on May 22, 2020 6:40:31 GMT
"Cultural information without human organisms to learn and enact it is without effect, like an indecipherable document in an unknown language lying buried the sands of a desert; but a human organism without cultural information is, as Geertz memorably put it, “not an intrinsically talented but unfulfilled ape, but a wholly mindless and consequently unworkable monstrosity” (1973a, 68).
Robert A. Paul
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