Maximus – Black Triangle Campaign

Disability Benefits Consortium, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equal Lives, Inclusion London, Ingeus, Leonard Cheshire Disability(LCD), Maximus, MInd, Pluss, Remploy, RNIB, ROFA, Royal Association of Deaf People (RADP), Shaw Trust, Sisters of Frida, Tory. Tories, Universal Credit, Work & Health programme

DWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause ‘is proof charities cannot be trusted’

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent

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Action On Hearing (RNID), DWP, Ingeus, Leonard Cheshire Disability(LCD), Maximus, Pluss, REED, Remploy, RNIB, Royal Association of Deaf People (RADP), Shaw Trust, Turning Point, Work & Health programme

Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’

April 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 19 April 2018 Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new

Continue readingCharities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’

DWP, Interwork, Maximus, Remploy

Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme

Continue readingRedundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

#Human Catastrophe, Atos, Capita, DWP, Frank Field, Heidi Allen, Maximus, PIP, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Benefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive

Continue readingBenefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs

#Human Catastrophe, Conservatives, Denise McKenna, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Linda Burnip, Maximus, MHRN

DWP refuses to name charities set to earn millions from new disability jobs scheme

January 26, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 25th January 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to name

Continue readingDWP refuses to name charities set to earn millions from new disability jobs scheme

Atos, Capita, DWP, Maximus, Stephen Lloyd, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

More than one in eight rejected PIP claims are overturned, DWP figures reveal

January 6, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 More than one in eight of all decisions to reject

Continue readingMore than one in eight rejected PIP claims are overturned, DWP figures reveal

Assessments, Atos, Capita, DWP, Maximus, PIP, Tory. Tories, Winvisible, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told

November 24, 2017 JJ

Image Courtesy of Winvisible By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 A grassroots group has warned MPs

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Assessments, Atos, CAB, Capita, Citizens Advice Bureau, DWP, Involve North West, Maximus, PIP, Southampton Advice and Representation Centre, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Benefit assessors ‘must be held accountable’ for report failings, MPs hear

November 24, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments on behalf

Continue readingBenefit assessors ‘must be held accountable’ for report failings, MPs hear

Black Triangle Campaign, Cheshire Centre for Independant Living (CCIL), Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, Remploy, Tory. Tories, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Concerns over criteria for ‘fitness for work’ reassessment exemptions

October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 Disabled campaigners have criticised new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Continue readingConcerns over criteria for ‘fitness for work’ reassessment exemptions

DWP, Maximus, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Mum and new baby face Christmas eviction after WCA ‘nightmare’

October 12, 2017October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12 th October 2017 A disabled woman with a new baby is set

Continue readingMum and new baby face Christmas eviction after WCA ‘nightmare’

Atos, Conservatives, Disabled Survivors Unite, DWP, Equality Act, Human Rights, Justin Tomlinson, Maximus, PIP

DWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial

August 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its

Continue readingDWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial

Conservatives, DWP, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

‘My picture is proof that healthcare professionals lie in benefit assessments’

August 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 A furious disability benefit claimant has produced what she says is

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Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Ministers ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’

August 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 Ministers have effectively admitted introducing a policy that will prevent many

Continue readingMinisters ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’

Conservatives, DWP, HMC, John McDonnell, Ken Loach, Labour Party, Maximus, WCA Deaths, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Shock after inquest ignores ‘fitness for work’ and jobcentre concerns

June 23, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 A coroner has declined to explain why he failed to take

Continue readingShock after inquest ignores ‘fitness for work’ and jobcentre concerns

#CripTheVoteUK, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Blog, CRPD, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Inclusion Scotland, Maximus, Penny Mordaunt, PIP, Tories, Tory, UN, UNCRPD, Universal Credit, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits

June 1, 2017 JJ

The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security

Continue reading#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits

BMA, Conservative Disability Group, CRIP The Vote UK, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, Disability Confident, Disability Labour, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality Act, GMC, Health and Care professions Council HCPC, Human Rights, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Linda Burnip, Lord David Freud, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, Tories, UC, Universal Credit, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme

Nobody is Unfit for Work

May 26, 2017 JJ

What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and

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Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Maximus, Prof Malcolm Harrington

DWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’

May 18, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have

Continue readingDWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’

Choice Support, CQC, ICO Information Commissioners Office, Maximus

Remploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections

May 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled people helping to deliver a vital part of the

Continue readingRemploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections

Alice Kirby, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Maximus, UKCRPD, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Pushed to the Brink

April 14, 2017 JJ

By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of

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Black Triangle Campaign, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WRAG Cuts

Potential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed

April 2, 2017 JJ

From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’

Continue readingPotential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed

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