Tuller / Trial By Error: The Crawley Chronicles, Resumed

Luther Blissett · Dec 20, 2017

Afraid my accounting skills amount to counting things that actually exist* @Wonko
Could explain my bank account balance.

(*As much as abstract fictions actually exist)

Barry · Dec 21, 2017

Lightning can deliver lots of energy ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTw0tu_fC9Q

Indigophoton · Dec 21, 2017

Keela Too said: ↑

I can't help but think the aim is less about helping those in need (indeed it seems those in real need, often have the hardest time accessing real help) but instead is about ensuring that the notion of questionable mental health touches as many individuals as possible?
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Indeed, the Biopsychosocial model is the key driver of previous and current government thinking on benefits,

MEAssociation said:

The BPS under-pinned Labour’s out-of-work disability benefit employment and support allowance (ESA) and the work capability assessment (WCA), which has since been linked repeatedly to relapses, episodes of self-harm, and even suicides and other deaths, among those who have been assessed and found fit for work.

BPS has also “played a key role” in the tightening of eligibility criteria for ESA and other disability benefits by the subsequent coalition and Tory governments, including the new personal independence payment and universal credit, even though there is “no coherent theory or evidence” behind it, say the three authors.

The BPS was developed by Dr Gordon Waddell, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Professor Sir Mansel Aylward (pictured), who was chief medical officer for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from 1995 to 2005.

Key to the BPS model, say the three authors, is the idea that “it is the negative attitudes of many ESA recipients that prevent them from working, rather than their impairment or health condition”, essentially branding many benefit claimants “scroungers”.

This allows supporters of BPS – including a string of Labour and Tory government ministers – to draw a distinction “between ‘real’ incapacity benefit claimants, with long-term and incurable health conditions, and ‘fake’ benefit claimants, with short-term illness”, with the model responsible for a “barely concealed” element of “victim-blaming”.
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http://www.meassociation.org.uk/201...sleading-disability-news-service-9-june-2016/

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