Atos Healthcare withdraws from the Work Capability Assessment:a comment

Grover, Chris (2014) Atos Healthcare withdraws from the Work Capability Assessment:a comment. Disability and Society, 29 (8). pp. 1324-1328. ISSN 0968-7599

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Abstract

In March 2014 Atos Healthcare withdrew a year early from its contract to provide the UK’s health assessment – the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) – that is supposed to sort disabled people into administrative categories according to their adjudged capability to do paid work. This move was welcomed by political elites, with, for example, UK Coalition Government Minister for Disabled People Mike Penning using it to criticise previous Labour governments for the contractual arrangements they put in place – although while the Coalition may have been concerned with the contractual arrangements soon after being formed, it extended the contract for five years. For the UK disability movement, the withdrawal of Atos Healthcare early from the WCA contract was a victory and, at least in part, a consequence of disabled activists’ resistance to the Employment and Support Allowance generally, and the WCA in particular.

Item Type:
Journal Article
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Disability and Society
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73380
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18 Jun 2015 05:37
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