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Well done. Mo Dr Dominic Griffiths Senior Lecturer Inclusive Education and SEN Manchester Metropolitan University Birley Building 53 Bonsall Street Manchester M15 6GX Tel: 0161 247 2077 email [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: The Disability-Research Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Mo Stewart <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 06 December 2018 13:37 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: preventable harm Hello Mr Barclay Further to our recent meeting, and unrelated to your new duties as Brexit Secretary, please find attached articles just published by the BJGP and the BMJ together with a memo explaining their significance. ‘State Crime by Proxy: corporate influence on state sanctioned social harm’, attached, has also just been published by the JCPCP and I respectfully suggest you take the time needed to read it very carefully. Continuing to disregard the mounting evidence of the preventable harm to those in greatest need created by these ongoing DWP welfare reforms is very unwise, and the catastrophic impact on public mental health linked to the welfare reforms is unsurprising and was predicted. Whilst there is now a very welcome priority to identify workers suffering from mental health problems when in the workplace, as a form of Employee Well Being, there is a distinct ongoing disregard by the DWP of the demonstrable preventable harm created by ongoing ‘welfare reform’ policies when claimants are too ill to work. Chronically ill and disabled people who are unfit to work now live in fear of the DWP, and 50% of ESA claimants have attempted suicide at some point following the fatally flawed WCA as adopted by the DWP, to resist funding ESA claims, by adopting a ‘blame’ mentality when influenced by a notorious American corporate insurance giant, who have advised the UK government regarding ‘welfare claims management’ since 1994. This is not something that should be disregarded, and is a direct result of social security reforms imposed by government. Selectively choosing random stats, as DWP Ministers tend to do, whilst disregarding overwhelming evidence of government enforced preventable harm remains unacceptable Mr Barclay, given that the commissioned research used to justify the adoption of the WCA to resist funding the ESA has been totally discredited by academic excellence. See: Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model by the distinguished Professor Tom Shakespeare and colleagues: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303558917_Blaming_the_victim_all_over_again_Waddell_and_Aylwards_biopsychosocial_BPS_model_of_disability The latest Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, copied into this email, needs to be much better informed and her recent comments in the HOC are fooling no-one. See: Killed By The State: https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/killed-by-the-state/ It remains unsurprising that, given the mounting evidence of the identified preventable harm created by the ongoing ‘welfare reform’ policies, the DWP continue to refuse to publish updated ESA mortality totals following the fatally flawed WCA using the discredited BPS model of assessment, as advised by a notorious US corporate insurance giant who have been advisers to the UK government since 1992. See: Cash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK welfare state: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cash-Not-Care-planned-demolition/dp/178507783X It’s interesting that there’s been a recent review of the Mental Health Act, whilst disregarding the dramatic increase in mental health problems demonstrably linked to the preventable harm caused by the welfare reforms and the use of the fatally flawed WCA. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/06/mental-health-patients-should-be-given-more-rights-over-treatment Many people are accessing my research Mr Barclay. I suggest you do too before your past career as a solicitor for an insurance company questions why you continue to disregard the detailed evidence demonstrated to be causing unnecessary and relentless preventable harm to those in greatest need. Thank you for your time. Best Mo Stewart [Emerald Literati Awards] “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” Martin Luther-King Jr Mo Stewart Fellow, the Centre for Welfare Reform Author of ‘Cash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK welfare state’. New Generation Publishing 2016 https://www.mostewartresearch.co.uk<https://www.mostewartresearch.co.uk/> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mo_Stewart/publications *** The contents of this email are intended for the recipient only and may be confidential. Permission is not given for this information to be published, forwarded or distributed further. *** ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). 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