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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Current status of the Freedom of Information Act request:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reque...atory_research
Some further reading about this after a quick Google search:
http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/10155/
https://thepoorsideoflife.wordpress....ities-for-dwp/
http://unemploymentmovement.com/foru...-research.html
https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/20...ns-laboratory/
I'll post any further news as and when I receive it.
If anybody is called into one of these meetings, a legal advocate can be provided via a Manchester based charity (just PM me) who are very, very concerned about these meetings, because they believe that they are unethical, may breach a person's human rights and cause particular problems for those with a mental health condition.
Nothing about this "study" seems ethical in their legal opinion.
"A room with a 2 way mirror and capacity for 12 people studying body language and facial expressions is wrong in so many ways, DWP are giving the wrong impression that claimants are potential criminals with this latest research in my view and this is going to be used to sieve claimants out for potential investigation".
"In my opinion they are going to use this as a sieve so rather than investigate a 100 they may investigate a few that display the unreliable signs of possible lying. Body language experts cannot be used in UK courts as reliable evidence source so why here!" |
Apologies, I didn't attribute the last two statements to the person who made them:
Michelle Cardno (LLB hons).