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The nasty department: DWP threaten to take disabled children away from parents
The DWP is sending out threatening, menacing letters to disabled parents, ordering them to do as they say or risk having their children taken into care.
As the coalition attacks relative child poverty, here’s a list of mythbusting facts
As the DWP publishes its annual Households Below Average Income figures, coalition policies are cancelling out a decade’s progress in tackling child poverty.
How DWP’s incompetence cost taxpayers and disabled people
The Department for Work and Pensions' failure to scrutinise the consequences of disability benefit reform raises serious questions about their competence.
Work experience is now voluntary, but the government still forces unpaid work
Alex Hern celebrates a minor victory over workfare, but warns that there is more to fight for in the future.
IDS gets that responsibility runs from bottom to top – why doesn’t the schools minister
Alex Hern asks whether Nick Gibb's focus on "got to have it now" culture wrongly focuses on celebrity over city greed.
IDS jumped the gun: Gangs had nothing to do with the riots
Three months on, Ben Mitchell goes through what we now know about the reasons for the riots.