Informal education programs are one alternative to attending school for children facing distress, learning challenges or the prospect of bullying.
Sick and disabled people trying to claim a new benefit introduced by Iain Duncan Smith are facing "distress and financial difficulties" because of mismanagement by civil servants and the outsourcing firms Atos and Capita, a spending watchdog has found.
PIP has already been criticised by the National Audit Office, which said in February that a backlog of 92,000 claims had built up and that people were facing "distress and financial difficulties" because of mismanagement by civil servants as well as Atos and Capita.
The meeting follows a damning report from the National Audit Office NAOO) which showed last month that sick and disabled people trying to claim the new benefit are facing "distress and financial difficulties" because of mismanagement by civil servants, Atos and Capita.
These issues involve sometimes difficult trade-offs between the treatment of borrowers facing distress and the potential harm to future borrowers who will find their access to credit constrained if lenders cannot rely on the security of collateral or the sanctity of contracts.
Disabled people are facing "distress and financial difficulties" owing to the slow processing of claims under a new benefit scheme, a report has found.
