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Originally Posted by Hugh
That statement is a sub-optimal interpretation of actuality - Local Government employees don't redeploy to the Civil Service.
How can someone from one employer doing a certain job be redeployed to another organisation which doesn't do that same job?  |
Talks with management and unions were attempted to ensure that Housing Benefit Officers would either be redeployed within their own local authority or transfer to the DWP to process Universal Credit- in particular cases requiring the housing cost element, which makes them more complicated to process.
This was not agreed, so over the past few years Housing Benefit staff have been looking for other jobs to ensure that they don't become unemployed. The net result is that the system is now being run without the experience of former members of staff with years of experience, some going back to the 1970's.
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Yes they did Den but they were classed as private and didn't have access to the patients full NHS information I'm on about the NHS officially handling it rather then occasional piecemeal private involvement.
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Wasn't the NHS computerised patient records system supposed to allow the DWP to have access to patient records?? Think this has been scrapped though?? There were many people unhappy about civil servants having access to very personal & private information, I remember a campaign urging people who objected to this to refuse consent for their records to be used in this way.
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Originally Posted by Taf
A call came at 1:40 to say that someone would call me at 5pm. It is now 5:08pm.
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I have been involved in the social policy side of the Social Security system since the 1980's and have never known the system to be in such a mess.
Badly thought out reforms based on political dogma, reductions in staff, apalling IT systems, letting inexperienced staff go, privatising various functions where the only motivator is profit etc have all taken their toll.
Cameron's Government have a lot to answer for.
Did you know that, depending on where they are in the system, a disabled person may be on one of several benefits with different regulations?
Incapacity Benefit & Income Support should have been abolished by now, but some disabled people are still on these benefits, as well as Contribution Based ESA, Income Based ESA, Universal Credit.
We heard of one case where someone is still on Severe Disablement Allowance, some are on DLA, some are on PIP, it's a really confusing farce for everybody concerned.