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Re: The state benefits system mega-thread.
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Originally Posted by jfman
The private sector were brought in around 2008 to carry out assessments for ESA. As part of this there was essentially an attempt to downgrade the role of Decision Maker in DWP from the lowest junior manager grade in the Civil Service to an administrative one (essentially rubber stamping the output of an ATOS assessment).
I’m not sure I feel there are “targets” for providers (this proves contentious when Dispatches sent someone undercover but there are certainly cases where the provider is paid per assessment leading to conveyor belt assessment centres.
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Decision Makers are EOs (Executive Officers), not AOs (Administrative Officers), and they don’t "rubber stamp" the assessments - if this were so, why is there an initial 4 weeks training, followed by 4 weeks of QA, followed by another 4 weeks of further training, followed by another 4 weeks QA, before DMs are allowed to actively score assessments?
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