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DWP fails to meet Information Commissioner deadline for possible benefit related deaths
Discusses UC managed migration and raises the risks posed to vulnerable claimants : https://askcpag.org.uk/document-downloads/208086/early-insight-into-managed-migration—-briefing-note-for-select-committee
[ Edited: 6 Jan 2023 at 12:36 pm by Owen_Stevens ]Includes an update on the work of the serious case panel: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1088967/annual-report-accounts-2021-22-web-ready.pdf
I’m goig to have a read over the next few weeks. I’d recommend taking a look - there tend to be a few interesting things tucked away in each ARA
Two recent DNS stories:
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-hounded-disabled-woman-for-years-before-her-starvation-death-papers-show/
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-mans-body-found-six-months-after-dwp-cut-off-his-benefits/
In the first a SAR is apparently due to take place.
In the second the reporting is based on a SAR report. It appears, from the reporting, that although DWP followed their procedures they were not sufficient to avoid this outcome.
A summary of the SAR is available here: https://www.telfordsafeguardingpartnership.org.uk/downloads/file/72/safeguarding-adult-review-e—-february-2020
Four opposition parties have written to Chloe Smith, the new Work and Pensions Secretary calling for a public inquiry into suicides and serious harm linked to the benefits system. The letter is signed by MPs representing the Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party.
https://www.rethink.org/get-involved/campaign-with-us/a-fairer-benefits-system-and-financial-support/stop-benefit-deaths/cross-party-letter-to-stop-benefit-deaths/
https://twitter.com/Rethink_/status/1580476386149797888
Includes info on Enhanced Quality Insurance Framework, strengthening internal governance links to the Serious Case Panel, and the SCP recommend work is undertaken to explore strengthening protections for vulnerable claimants from inappropriate sanctioning https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116800/dwp-serious-case-panel-minutes-2022-10-12.pdf
DNS on IPR recommendations: https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/claimant-deaths-still-linked-to-systemic-flaws-in-benefits-system-dwp-document-shows/
John Pring, of DNS, and Imogen Day, Philippa Day’s sister, appear on this podcast together: https://healingjusticeldn.org/resources/death-of-a-customer-ep3/
Podcast transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ma0CSkMh7TNQKEjcBv8yoYHs4tmbKL4I/edit
An update on, among other things, negotiations between EHRC and DWP: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33846/documents/184821/default/
Another update on s.23 negotiations between DWP and EHRC: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33934/documents/186025/default/
Info on meetings of the Internal Process Review Group https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-02-21/149574
John Pring, of DNS, with some news on Jodey Whiting’s inquest: https://twitter.com/johnpringdns/status/1636684953671876609
And from Leigh Day: https://www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/2023-news/court-of-appeal-grants-second-inquest-into-death-of-jodey-whiting/
And from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/17/disabled-woman-jodey-whiting-new-inquest
[ Edited: 17 Mar 2023 at 12:35 pm by Owen_Stevens ]Here’s today’s CoA judgment:
Dove v HM Assistant Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool & Anor [2023] EWCA Civ 289 (17 March 2023)
From Disability News Service:
DWP backs down in legal case over release of secret death reports