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Blog on Rishi Sunak speech on sickness + benefits

➀ sick notes a minor issue
➀ WCA/PIP reforms unclear
➀ SSP must be more generous
➀ more conditionality: can cost more than it saves
➀ employment support welcome
➀ but 'any job' isn't the way fwd

policyinpractice.co.uk/disability-ben…

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You can read more about the 'evidence based review' of the WCA in this report from 2013, which is where the screenshots in this thread are taken from: gov.uk/government/pub…

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I was working for Mind - we had been asked by Professor Malcolm Harrington, who was leading an independent review of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) to work with other disability charities to develop an alternative version of the assessment that DWP could test 2/9

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