DWP and assessors fail to refer claimants at risk of harm to social services.

And another biggie.

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-and-assessors-fail-to-refer-claimants-at-risk-of-harm-to-social-services-research-finds/

This could do with expanding-

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/3/introduction/enacted

It is a perennial bugbear of mine that the minister of state is a statutory safeguarding partner and is the singularly most unhelpful and dangerous part of my job.

Edit: I should add that I have heard 1 referral to us; a Work Coach raised a safeguarding concern with their safeguarding officer who passed it on to us.

I’ve been in this job for nearly 7 years now. I have seen hundreds of safeguarding concerns that JCP could have anticipated.