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Hello Mr Otram,
Please find attached my findings regarding the above.
Bob Weston
Data Quality Manager
HMCTS - Finance Directorate - Perfor...
Thank you Della. And thank you JtOakley for that useful insight into PHSO procedures. In the light of your having decided to 'park ' your complaint abo...
The only reason you banned GEOFF REYNOLDS is because he is finding the truth.........
This website is now a toothless poodle, a lapdog of the DWP.......
Use whatever you like to make a record of your audible presentation. Since when did atos acquire the authority to decide how you make a record.
Atos...
Between us, a friend and I have spoken to three different staff on the ever unhelpful desk, and a resources clerk. All four went to seek advice and al...
A case I think of not recording information you do not want the public to know. Given that DWP is still witholding some information under the policy-f...
So, on that basis, it might be the case that claimants are having their entitlement to full, or any, benefits denied for long periods, not because Atos...
John,
You raise an extremely valid point. I believe that distrust and contempt for claimants is endemic across the DWP. The Tribunal hearing related...
And now see:-
http://atosvictimsgroup.co.uk/2013/01/04/disabled-face-exorbitant-fees-in-benefit-appeals/
The assessment by a nurse or doctor for whatever reason becomes part of the person's medical file and any deviations from other mainstream medical opin...
Hear, hear. It is however still a disgrace that DWP can do what it likes and leave the TS to sort out the mess.
Hopefully we will crack the Day 21 issue soon elsewhere.
I am working on the procedures they have established to ensure that the supply shortfall of e...
"...in the majority of cases, the reason why a person is unable to attend an assessment is not recorded as there is no relevant reason to do so..."
I...
Dear Mr Otram,
Please find attached response to your Freedom of Information Internal
Review request.
<<3993-IR679 Mr Otram Response.pdf>>
Corres...
Dear Mr Otram
Please find enclosed a response to your request for a review of
the information previously supplied under the Freedom of
Information...
Dear Mr Otram
Please see attached response to your FoI request.
Kind regards
DWP Central FoI Team
Jim Otram <[FOI #133310 email]>
DWP Central Free...
Dear Mr Otram
Please find enclosed a response to your request for a review of the
information previously supplied under the Freedom of Information...
Back to the incompetence vs malice debate Jim.
The Atos report openly & rightly acknowledges the 500 sample was arbitrary and categorically NOT sta...
Linked to this, I have asked given my absolute right to record a session "behind closed doors", that if Atos cannot oblige, what possible objection can...
Dear Mr Otram
Please find enclosed a response to your request for an Internal Review
under the Freedom of Information Act.
<<FOI Response 3036-IR1...
Dear Mr Otram,
Please see attached response to your Internal Review request.
Kind regards,
DWP Central FoI Team
From: Jim Otram [mailto:[FOI #10446...
So:-
1. Despite the terms of its own briefing document, which specifically stated that factors to be considered in evaluating the pilot included:
"...
JN’s points are spot on. I’ve been in situations where I have raised concerns about treating people badly and I got very strange looks from senior peop...
So the DWP ask Atos and Atos say 'no probs' - and that, it would appear, is the end of any audit.
I cannot presently prove they are wrong, but I pers...
As regards the praise for this site - hear hear!
This person's 178 annotations
Thank you Della. And thank you JtOakley for that useful insight into PHSO procedures. In the light of your having decided to 'park ' your complaint abo...
Thank you for taking an interest in this query. Reciprocally, I am very interested in the point you bring to bear.
Telephone calls are, regrettably,...
Laugh or cry?
In all fairness to the PHSO, it HAS addressed the queries I raised. It does NOT have a 'policy' which automatically excludes evidence...
The prompt for this enquiry is a Consumer Action Group thread:-
http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?256545-Audio-recording-your...
"... the Commissioner has confirmed that the response dated 14 March 2013 was handled incorrectly and reference to the term vexatious should not have b...
Good one, Sarah T. I look forward to learning of further developments with interest.
It looks like the DWP is once again commencing the policy of fla...
I've seen one or two of these types of message here at WDTK before.
It usually seems to mean that someone at the recipient's end, the DWP in this cas...
" Options are currently being considered around commissioning claimant insight activity..."
Anybody able to translate this juvenile jargon into Engl...
Quite so, JN. The fact the DWP will not accept the obviously sensible, cost-effective accommodation, 'if you record then you must let the DWP as well',...
(Absolutely agreed, D.A.) Re: laptops - now see yesterday's response to this query:-
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dwpatos_guidance_documen...
An absolutely cracking result here. Thank you, John.
"More recently it has been accepted that under the Data Protection Act and as we are acting on b...
Many congratulations, JN. Looks like you and I were compiling annotations at the same time. In much the same direction, I am glad to note!
Indeed, JS. An excellent result from admirable persistence.
It may not be immediately obvious to any passers by that the ruling from the ICO referred...
It is extraordinary. I have been specifically told the contray by Atos.
Ah, well - at least this request may be of some use the next time a claimant\...
Many congratulations on getting the ICO to rule succinctly and emphatically in your favour on this issue, John.
For 'passers-by', see:-
http://www....
Congtaulations on getting the ICO bestir itself of this issue, John.
Further developments awaited with interest.
That's the spirit, John. I'm looking forward to the outcome of your ref. to the ICO on the point in question.
That strikes me as an extremely important and precise point.
Best of luck with this, RP, and thank you for the info.
Definitely one to 'follow'.
Many thanks chaps. Until now, the only specific reference to this I knew was made by the B&W people in their 10 12 12 newsletter:-
"So, the fight is...
Good one, Paul.
May I request a link to Capita's saying it would be happy to record, etc.?
It's just grotesque, John. Still 'formulating policy' as regards a tin-pot 'pilot' completed in June 2011..
Blatant and contemptible evasion.
Many congratulations, John. Your tenacity is an example and encouragement to all FoI enquirers, and I look forward to reading the forthcoming info, and...
Thnaks for that update, DF.
Wholly agreed, JS.
The DWP are not montoring the real reason why people's medical assessments are being delayed - some...
So, on that basis, it might be the case that claimants are having their entitlement to full, or any, benefits denied for long periods, not because Atos...