Tribunal rules DWP must release information from secret benefit deaths reviews
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Disability News Service (DNS) has won its appeal against the Department for Work and Pensions’ refusal to publish information from 49 secret reviews it conducted into the deaths of benefit claimants.
The decision of the information rights tribunal to allow the DNS appeal means the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should now be forced to hand over all of the information from the 49 “peer reviews” that does not directly relate to the people who died.
DWP has been given five weeks to agree with DNS which information it will release from the reviews, 22 of which took place in 2012-13, 16 in 2013-14, and 11 in 2014-15.
The information it releases will not include details of the circumstances of each death or even the summaries of the findings in each case, but DWP is now required to release most of the recommendations that were made by the authors of the reviews.
This should allow disabled campaigners to hold DWP to account over whether it has implemented changes to its procedures to avoid such deaths happening again.
Source: Tribunal rules DWP must release information from secret benefit deaths reviews
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The tide is turning…..
“hold DWP to account over whether it has implemented changes to its procedures to avoid such deaths happening again”.
Exactly, and we know they have not implemented changes that affect the safety of claimants. Evidence they know; So they become liable. From the top down, every administrator will become a target for legal redress, whether civil or criminal. This is the point of no return and will cost millions in claims, ironically, much of which will be paid by the taxpayer.
hopefully mike they will make the details available for those that have died in which is just the tip of the iceberg
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/223050/incap_decd_recips_0712.pdf
I know this is totally of topic but I have found out today that dove house hospice in Hull is being sent claimants by the DWP for workfare, I didn’t know who else to tell this to.
Oh and dove house hospice is accepting them!
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Make them release everything that they’re trying to hide and expose the evil that they’ve unleashed upon everyone since 2010!
Their strengths are also their weakness, the very same tactics they employ will be the Tories downfall.