Ekklesia | Atos

February 14, 2018

PIP and ESA assessments are working as intended

If a food product is found to be contaminated, it is immediately withdrawn from sale. If a vehicle is found to be unsafe it is taken off the road.
December 5, 2017

Atos, Maximus and Capita questioned on disability assessments

Newly released statistics show that at times almost 60 per cent of Capita disability assessments have been deemed 'unacceptable' by the DWP.
October 29, 2014

Maximus, Atos, and Work Capability Assessments

When Atos walked away from its contract to carry out Work Capability Assessments, the government needed to find a replacement. Today (29 October 2014) it was announced that the contract has been awarded to Maximus. Only time will tell of course, but for many disabled people the initial reaction may be, ‘out of the frying pan and into the fire’.
February 18, 2014

Resist Atos - national day of demonstrations

At the Conservative Party conference in 2011, David Cameron told a lie in his speech. This is not a claim I make lightly.
January 30, 2014

MP demands Capita reform to end punitive treatment of disabled people

Peter Hain MP has called on the medical assessment company Capita to urgently reform its process before it becomes as bad as ATOS.
December 9, 2013

ATOS and DWP stand accused over flawed 'fit for work' assessments

In an important new paper from the Centre for Wefare Reform (http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org), leading independent disability campaigner Kaliya Franklin, part of the Spartacus network, carefully analyses how government policy has undermined the objectivity of the medical assessments on sick and disabled people used by the private medical firm ATOS.
September 30, 2013

Remembering the thousands who have died after being passed 'fit for work'

As sick and disabled people suffer distress and poverty they really need people of faith not to pass by on the other side of the road. So it was heartening when on 28 September 2013, the Dean of St Paul’s joined grassroots campaigners to demand an end to Work Capability Assessments and a New deal for sick and disabled people, as called for by the WOW petition.
September 29, 2013

Dean of St Paul's leads prayers for victims of government cuts

The Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, David Ison, has lead prayers at a multifaith act of remembrance for people who have died or suffered as a result of UK cuts.
August 23, 2013

Time to shut down the Atos machine

If a factory production line was found to be turning out a high proportion of faulty and unusable widgets, it would be stopped. It might then take some time to detect and correct the fault, but to leave the machine running whilst the fault persisted would be an avoidable waste of energy and materials.
June 7, 2013

Atos assessments 'trampling on people's human dignity', says Archbishop

The Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow has written to Iain Duncan Smith, expressing concern at the impact of the work capability assessments carried out by Atos

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