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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Atos Healthcare withdraws from the Work Capability Assessment
T2 - a comment
AU - Grover, Chris
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - accumulation
KW - austerity
KW - decision making
KW - dispossession
KW - wage labour
U2 - 10.1080/09687599.2014.948750
DO - 10.1080/09687599.2014.948750
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 1324
EP - 1328
JO - Disability and Society
JF - Disability and Society
SN - 0968-7599
IS - 8
ER -