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ATOS - leaked report shows "DWP is holding Atos to extremely tight tolerances"

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/09/atos-disabled-people-assessment-fit-work-report

"Not only are there figures for overall numbers of people awarded the points needed to qualify for the employment and support allowance (ESA), figures also exist for individual prognoses, for the points awarded, even for the word count of the summary findings. And each Atos region is expected to stray no further than 20% from the national average."

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  • I honestly don't think there was any intelligence applied to this within DWP, and that's what continues to be the problem.

    They clearly have a "thing" about people they think are workshy. And this reform was an opportunity to "let the dog's out" and beat up all those skivers they've always wanted to sort out.

    Right the way through this process they've treated it as some sort of licence to wreck lives. I don't think they've given the slightest thought to the impact on disabled people, or even attempted to understand what disability is about.

    If there were underlying good intentions DWP staff went about this thoughtlessly and thoroughly unprofessionally.

    Personally I don't think there is any way forward now without a massive reform of DWP. This Government Department needs a clear out of a lot of dead wood.

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  • I honestly don't think there was any intelligence applied to this within DWP, and that's what continues to be the problem.

    They clearly have a "thing" about people they think are workshy. And this reform was an opportunity to "let the dog's out" and beat up all those skivers they've always wanted to sort out.

    Right the way through this process they've treated it as some sort of licence to wreck lives. I don't think they've given the slightest thought to the impact on disabled people, or even attempted to understand what disability is about.

    If there were underlying good intentions DWP staff went about this thoughtlessly and thoroughly unprofessionally.

    Personally I don't think there is any way forward now without a massive reform of DWP. This Government Department needs a clear out of a lot of dead wood.

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