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Code of conduct?
Might I suggest that people tune into BBC1 tonight at 8:30.
Only half of all people with a disability are in work. Panorama investigates if one of the government’s most ambitious welfare reforms, costing billions of pounds, can solve the problem of disability unemployment. Reporter Sam Poling reveals the private companies who are getting rich from the new reforms despite only being able to get a small fraction of disabled people back to work, and speaks to the charities who feel the most vulnerable in our society are being failed.
For anyone who missed it, you can see the programme on BBC i-player.
Panorama - The Great Disability Scam?
As well as some pretty damning case studies, there are revealing statistics that show a significant number of voluntary agencies who DWP claim on their website are sub-contractors are actually not involved in the programme at all, and a similar number of those agencies who are sub-contracted for specialist disability-related employment support having received no referrals at all from prime contractors.
And repeats.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qgk9h/broadcasts/upcoming
Paul, can you refresh my memory over what happened to Ruth who we saw at the start of the programme?
Ruth was described as having severe learning disabilities and epilepsy and had been placed in the WRAG group - this decision was successfully overturned on appeal, so I assume she was subsequently put into the support group.
Thanks, I couldn’t quite remember whether she had been put in the WRAG or failed the assessment altogether. Either way, pretty damning, considering her obvious and profound disabilities.