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Monday 7 October 2013

DWP quietly confirms ATOS isn’t working after all – Sheila Gilmore MP….

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admin posted: " For months the Department for Work and Pensions were insistent that the critics of the Work Capability Assessment – and ATOS in particular –were wrong; the Department instead said the system was gradually improving. Now, one working day into the Westmi"

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For months the Department for Work and Pensions were insistent that the critics of the Work Capability Assessment – and ATOS in particular –were wrong; the Department instead said the system was gradually improving.

DWP quietly confirms ATOS isn't working after all – Sheila Gilmore MP….

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Now, one working day into the Westminster recess, the Department allows a major about turn to slip out. After years of condemnation from campaigners, charities and MPs, the DWP has finally admitted that the quality of some of the ATOS work is so poor that staff are going to have to be retrained and monitored more thoroughly. And, because the problem is endemic ATOS will be losing its monopoly of carrying out these assessments, with other providers picking up the slack.

Logo of Atos Origin used prior to July 2011.Logo of Atos Origin used prior to July 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Had this come out last week my colleagues and I would have been demanding that Iain Duncan Smith come to answer an Urgent Question on the matter in the Commons. But because MPs are on recess back in their constituencies, that hasn't happened.
It turns out that while IDS and his employment minister Mark Hoban were telling MPs that all was well, they had in fact commissioned an urgent audit of ATOS in May because of concerns that an earlier smaller audit had thrown up.
We are now asked to believe that that the problem is only one part the process, not substance.
Minister Hoban now tells us that this doesn't mean that the decisions have been wrong, rather ATOS don't write very good reports on the individuals they are assessing. While the assessment is only part of the process of assessment, it is the DWP's Decision Makers who wield much greater power.
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Thursday 25 July 2013

Landmark ruling ends secrecy of family law - [New Comment] Parents Rights Blog - The Times

Date: 24 July 2013 13:31
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Towards change:- There just ain't no positives !
By the way when I first got involved in care proceedings. I sacked my first lawyer who I have on good authority took money, another lawyer called and told me everything and everything he states is true. Then with my second lawyer I found an old blog by MP Hodge and read her recommendations and followed them, got my court bundle and sacked them too. Lastly, Ian I found your blogs and followed your instructions to a T apart from kidnapping my child if nothing else prevails. I did not do the latter, because I believed in justice and the wrongs of the council are wide and far, even the ECHR states 'the matters I complain of are within their competence.
I took the right route instead of going on the run. It is too late for me and I must continue the fight, but I would advise single parents in particular of African origin not to even come to Northamptonshire and play proactive in any shape or form, because they do not like this and they hate black people. The latter is displayed without shame. The Trayvon Martin case has brought race into the public eye; which is a good thing and let us not forget Stephen Lawerence. Based on factual evidence you mess with Northamptonshire local establishment the first thing they will do is illegally kidnap your child/ren. Please note, Northamptonshire police & social services, including Northampton Borough Council are labelled the worst in the country for good reason.
Ian, I still do not agree with your views about the secrecy issue, but I do understand your outlook fully and you do present a case to support this and so do I. There has to be some degree of optimism and using whatever crumbs they give us as tools to fight back. If not we all might as well say, everybody give up and take the law into their own hands and do not leave any hostages.
Ian at long last it is a pleasure conversing with you, for now I will bid you goodbye.
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Date: 22 July 2013 23:33
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  Operation Rose Police Fight Back   Police leading a huge but largely abortive child abuse inquiry denied yesterday they had encouraged false allegations and wrecked the lives of innocent teachers and care workers by "trawling" for evidence in children's homes.  Dozens of professionals in the north-east, backed by MPs, have lodged complaints about the […]
I am SO sick and tired of these police and prosecutors bending or breaking the sacred oath they took to uphold the law and see justice done. Instead they are choosing who they want to be guilty and making it so, why do they think they can play God? http://northamptoncouncil.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/perpetrators.html
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