G4S protecting vulnerable children? Tell Gove it’s a bad idea
The likes of Atos and Capita could soon get their hands on child protetection.
The likes of Atos and Capita could soon get their hands on child protetection.
His welfare schemes keep imploding, severely ill people keep being declared fit for work and so many people are falling through cracks in the benefits system that food bank use surpassed a million this year. Yet Iain Duncan Smith soldierstest
The coalition is moving toward a welfare system that is surreal in its cruelty, writes Annie Powell.
Thousands of disabled people have been wrongly judged fit for work by Atos since August 2010.
A mother of three has died just three weeks after being told by Atos that she was fit to work.
Atos Healthcare, the company appointed by the government to test whether disabled people are ‘fit to work’, is at the epicentre of dogmatically-driven tragedy.
The government keeps spinning against disabled people using the work and statistics of the discredited Atos organisation, reports Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton.
Among those selected by the government to carry out its welare to work programme are Atos, G4S and Serco – all have dubious records carrying out public sector contracts.