REFERENCE THE BELOW REPORT ON DISABILITY NEWS SERVICE.
What is becoming clear is that STOPS has been attempting to establish the facts. The DWP acknowledges it carries out Internal Process Reviews IPRs in FOI responses. It even says one day they will publish them. Except of course they want to hide them as it will more than open up Pandora’s Box on the hidden truth behind suicides across the DWP departments. STOPS will attempt to be invited before the Child Maintenance Parliamentary Inquiry but it is our opinion, backed by facts, that the damage caused to mental health of customers (VICTIMS) is being brushed under the carpet in a “lets put it right process” and hope to God we never end up before a Public Inquiry which will be the only way to get justice for those victims that include parents AND children. Children have been killed. Partners have been killed and many parents have taken their own lives.
But the debate is really around the Public Interest Test. On what grounds do the DWP FOI Team truly feel empowered to withhold the suicide data, the IPRs and results of investigations?
With “TRIGGER THE CMS SERVERS” still unable to calculate properly or integrate properly with HMRC or CIS or even between its addressing mailing systems, we know that the victim stress continues and so will the mental health issues and deaths.
We call upon the Government to hold a Public Inquiry into the DWP, it’s actions and its process that sadly lead to people taking their lives. We paraphrase Viscount Younger of Leckie actually. If we can’t take the nod from the man who oversaw the CMS who can we?
A great report from the Disability News Service – but we know this issue extends right across DWP departments and especially the CMS!
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