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City, University of London Disability and Social Inclusion seminar
A Better Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is Possible: How to Reform the WCA
February 21st, I.pm -2.30pm
Speaker: Ben Baumberg Geiger, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent
The Work Capability Assessment has been such a failure that some people seem to have abandoned hope that a better WCA is possible. The cause of WCA reform has not been helped by the absence of concrete, deliverable proposals for replacing it. Yet it is possible to create an assessment that more accurately assesses people’s capacity for work, using best practice from other countries and adapting them to suit the UK. This talk sets out how such a new assessment works, producing transparent and fair decisions based on the real demands of work in Britain.
Please book a place by emailing Doria Pilling: [log in to unmask]
Full details at: https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/february/a-better-work-capability-assessment-wca-is-possible
<https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/february/a-better-work-capability-assessment-wca-is-possible>Doria Pilling
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Division of Health Services Research and Management
School of Health Sciences
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB
020 8992 4302
0793 999 5357
Editor with Karen Christensen of the Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World: See www.routledge.com/9781472479457<http://www.routledge.com/9781472479457>
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