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‘Complacent’ DWP needs ‘major shake-up’ on work fitness tests

14/02/2013 – 3:00 pm

An influential committee of MPs has delivered a scathing account of the failure of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to challenge the poor performance of its “fitness for work” contractor Atos Healthcare.
The public accounts committee says in its report, published today (Friday), that DWP is “getting far too many decisions wrong” through its [...]

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Cool response to Harrington’s final review

29/11/2012 – 10:00 am

The third annual review of the government’s “fitness for work” assessment process has received a cool response from disabled activists.
The report was the third carried out by Professor Malcolm Harrington – and his last before being replaced – and concluded that there had been “real progress” towards making the work capability assessment (WCA) more “humane, [...]

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