The minister for disabled people has admitted to complete ignorance about the model that lies at the heart of his governments programme of disability benefit reforms. Justin Tomlinson was asked what his thoughts were about the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability in a question-and-answer session at a meeting of the all-party parliamentary disability group on Tuesday. Ministers have repeatedly spoken of how the BPS model is central to their disability benefit reform programme and successive governments have relied on it to justify slashing disability benefits for more than a decade. Ellen Clifford from Inclusion London told the meeting while Tomlinson was out of the room voting that the BPS model would be underpinning the governments health and work green paper which will be published later this year. She said that comments by new work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb earlier in the meeting about the need for closer integration between work and health showed that this green p...
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