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Progress has been made on ‘fitness for work’ test, says review

30/11/2011 – 9:00 am

Disability organisations have welcomed the second annual review of the government’s much-criticised “fitness for work” test, but have warned that progress on improving the assessment has been too slow.
Professor Malcolm Harrington, who has carried out both independent reviews for the government, said he believed “real progress” had been made in improving the work capability assessment [...]

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Research questions improvements to ‘fitness for work’ tests

29/09/2011 – 9:00 am

New research has raised doubts over whether changes to the government’s “fitness for work” tests have made the assessments any fairer for disabled people.
The survey of welfare advisers by the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) comes nearly 10 months after the publication of an independent review of the work capability assessment (WCA) called on the government [...]

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