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Audio recording option set to be introduced for all PIP assessments
DNS reports that -
The Department for Work and Pensions has finally agreed that all disabled people being assessed for personal independence payment will be able to have their face-to-face assessments recorded.
The promise has come in a letter to the Right to Record action group, a disabled-led group of campaigners in Barking and Dagenham, who have been meeting online every week for the last six months ....
... the action group has received a response from ministers which says audio recording should be available by the time DWP resumes face-to-face PIP assessments, which are currently “paused” because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More:
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/audio-recording-option-set-to-be-introduced-for-all-pip-assessments-says-dwp/
https://www.studio3arts.org.uk/the-right-to-record