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After Atos Healthcare: is the Employment and Support Allowance fit for purpose and does the Work Capability Assessment have a future?

Warren, J.; Garthwaite, K.; Bambra, C.

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Authors

K. Garthwaite

C. Bambra



Abstract

In June 2014 the BBC reported that it had seen a number of UK Department for Work and Pensions documents relating to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). These documents, which included six memos written by civil servants and government advisers, tell us very little that we did not know already; namely that the ESA is in crisis, and that waiting lists for assessment and appeals are unacceptable. However, what is significant is that these concerns are being raised within the Department for Work and Pensions itself. The underlying drift is that the question of whether the current model of ESA and Work Capability Assessment is sustainable is now firmly on the UK government’s radar.

Citation

Warren, J., Garthwaite, K., & Bambra, C. (2014). After Atos Healthcare: is the Employment and Support Allowance fit for purpose and does the Work Capability Assessment have a future?. Disability and Society, 29(8), 1319-1323. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2014.948746

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Sep 8, 2014
Deposit Date Oct 14, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 8, 2016
Journal Disability and Society
Print ISSN 0968-7599
Electronic ISSN 1360-0508
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 29
Issue 8
Pages 1319-1323
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2014.948746
Keywords Welfare reform, Surveillance and monitoring, Employment support allowance, Outsourcing of public services.

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