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Charities delivering DWP’s work & health programme must promise not to attack the work and pensions secretary
From disabilitynewsservice.com -
Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new Work and Health Programme must promise to “pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” of work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, official documents suggest.
The charities, and other organisations, must also promise never to do anything that harms the public’s confidence in McVey or her Department for Work and Pensions ....
what standing and Ms McVile’s reputation is well…..............
Oh dear. Had they said “standing and reputation” of the post you could almost (almost) see the point. As they’ve referred to the person…
Oh dear. Had they said “standing and reputation” of the post you could almost (almost) see the point. As they’ve referred to the person…
Later in the DNS piece they say -
Part of that clause states that the contractor “shall pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” of DWP and ensure it does nothing to bring it “into disrepute, damages the reputation of the Contracting Body or harms the confidence of the public in the Contracting Body”.
The contract defines the “Contracting Body” as the work and pensions secretary, a position currently occupied by the much-criticised Esther McVey ...
Ms McVey doesn’t need charities to bring her into disrepute, she manages to do that herself every time she opens her mouth.