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Philippa Day death: family launches legal challenge against DWP

  Philippa Day death: family launches legal challenge against DWP This article is more than 5 years old Government accused of violating right to life after mentally ill mother took overdose when benefits cut off Patrick Butler Social policy editor Mon 10 May 2021 12.34 BSTLast modified on Mon 10 May 2021 17.03 BST The family of Philippa Day, a mentally ill single mother who died from a deliberate overdose after her benefits were wrongly cut off, is to seek compensation from the government. Day died in 2019 after months of struggle with the benefit system left her in debt, highly anxious and haunted by suicidal thoughts. An inquest concluded her experience with the system was a “stressor” in her decision to take the overdose. Her family claims the handling of the case by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the private firm to carries out some benefits assessments, was negligent and breached Day’s human rights. DWP and Capita have three months to respond...

DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death

  DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death This article is more than 1 year old from the  Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases Errol Graham starved to death in June 2018 after the DWP wrongly stopped his out-of-work disability benefits. Photograph: Handout Ben Quinn Thu 2 Jan 2025 07.00 GMT More than £50,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home. The costs were part of a bill of nearly £1m spent under the (conservatives circa 2023) government to prevent the release of various documents under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. The figures were revealed after requests by the Democracy for Sale newsletter , which sought details of spending under the last government in attempts to prevent the release of information. Some of the spending that was uncovered rela...

The misrepresentations stack up but are shaken off every time - injuries, restraining order, asthma, mental health - nothing sticks

I had made several complaints from Oct 2022 to Neath Port Talbort ("NPT"), wales social services. They misrepresented the whole process, to repeatedly, to hide that Joseph was in trouble in Rev Elizabeth Tremble-Niccolls' care.  My request for data was made Dec 2022. But NPT delayed telling me until March 2023 because they had been told that I had a restraining order against me by Rev Elizabeth Tremble-Niccolls. There was no restraining order.  Even though NPT were repeatedly telling me they had no concerns, behind the scenes they were investigating, Oct, Dec 2022.  There report clearly shows that Rev Elizabeth Tremble-Niccolls had given Joseph an asthma pump with him having asthma.  The report also shows that Joseph was suffering mentally: a. "Discussion with Nunclateral checks with school and health will be completed again"  b. "you ring school check they still do not have concerns in regard to Joseph[.] has mother said he has asthma or has she provide...

I was told that Joseph had asthma during contact issues when his doctor said he did not have asthma

Rev Elizabeth Tremble-Niccolls was repeatedly inconstant with the truth. This is when she claimed that Joseph had Asthma so she could stop court contact. Much later Joseph's GP Dr Luntz very reluctantly,  confirms that Joseph in fact does not have Asthma. They still protected her. On 28 December 2020 Rev Elizabeth Tremble-Niccolls, CC'd Cafcass officer Alistair Kinnaird, and complained that I could not have contact with Joseph because he had asthma: “Despite trying to explain that Joseph also has asthma and due to rapidly changing conditions as a result of covid restrictions the only option for contact this week is to force Joseph to go to a cold damp park you think this would be the most appropriate despite offering it a week later when it can be in a safer and warmer environment where he is more likely to engage, a perfectly reasonable alternative that still promotes contact. "(Elizabeth - 28 December 2020 at 15:10)”   On 6 August 2021 Dr Luntz, after I started legal pr...

She continued to tell others in the church that Joseph had been injured but the hospital records show no injuries

Rev Elizabeth Tremble-Niccolls was repeatedly inconstant with the truth. On 12 March 2019, she claimed that Joseph had been attacked. Kicked in that head, once or twice, and his head slammed in a door, and that he had been thrown across the room. After a 3rd examinations at 2051 Addenbrokes reported that they could find nothing to support this.  Without support from the hospital records she looked to our neighbours. She then told that that Joseph had been injured. She said that "he might get away with this and hurt Joseph further" to encourage support from other priests and neighbours. This is not a difference of opinion. A doctor could only find dry skin wrong with Joseph. There was nothing to support being kicked, thrown, a door slammed on his head. However, social services still report that I injured Joseph. At Addenbrokes hospital Joseph was examined and found to be well. Joseph's report said at 12 March 2019 20:51: "ED Notes by Hena SALAM, Consultant at 12/3/201...

Dear Daniel Zeichner - you think I am a domestic abuser - please read what I have been forced to publish

 Dear Daniel Zeichner, I did not want to publish what has happened to me by me current wife Rev Elizabeth Tremble-Niccolls because although I miss my children I hoped to reconnect with them and of course tell them. It is hard to tell if you are motivated by truth or faith. So I will try my best to publish as much today that is legal. So nothing from the court, and nothing of a lewd nature. Nothing is gained by that. I do not want to go to prison for contempt or harassment. But I do know that you detest domestic abusers. And I know and can prove you are behind almost 7 years of abuse. You have been more careless in these last months, and my clarity has improved. In your emails you were more than obvious that you were controlling the PHSO and DWP. So I can see you are also controlling or permitting the council to evict me, and the UC staff to delay access to benefits. I understand completely why you are doing this. You hate domestic abusers, so you hate me.  So today I will be p...

Imagine corruption so ingrained it is like a religion - imagine Daniel Zeichner MP

 Daniel Zeichner appears to have control over every aspect of my life - now whether i am evicted or not.  I first started in 2019 when the pip assessment at atos lost my paperwork and i turned to Daniel Zeichner for help. This help lasted 6 months and was ended when I threatened to take the DWP to court on 20 June 2020.  I know now what I did not know then. A sign that Daniel Ziechner was messing with me. Both then and now. He set a complaint style that does not exist in law or in policy  and if it did it would be unlawful. In 2020 Daniel Zeichner set up a special one to one complaint with the DWP. And he did it again in 2026 with me and my partner. I only recognised its unlawfulness after 6 years of legal research, as a breach of natural justice or Art 6.   This complaint style is unlawful because it excludes the complainant from the complaint. It rephrases the complaint without confirming it with the complainer. And it extends the complaint beyond the usual....