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THE MAN WHO TRIED TO SAVE 134,000 CARERS GOT SACKED FOR HIS TROUBLE Enrico La Rocca spent 27 years working for the Department for Work and Pensions (@DWP). From 2018 he kept raising the alarm internally: the Carer's Allowance system was broken, data alerts were being ignored, and unpaid carers were quietly racking up thousands of pounds in overpayment debts they had no idea about. DWP's own 2019 internal audit found that two thirds of earnings-related Carer's Allowance overpayments over £2,500 could have been stopped earlier, had DWP simply acted on the data-matching alerts already sitting in its own systems. The alerts were there. The staff were not. Nobody did anything. La Rocca pushed harder. Concerned by media reports of carers having their cases referred to the Crown Prosecution Service despite DWP's failure to address these systemic problems, he contacted the CPS to request that the National Audit Office report, already in the public domain, be shared with the court to ensure a just outcome. That act of basic human decency, asking for a public document to be used in court, became the justification DWP used to sack him. Despite assurances from DWP permanent secretary Sir Peter Schofield that La Rocca would be protected, he was dismissed in 2020 and reinstated in 2021 only after parliamentary intervention. Ministers then had to intervene again when his managers tried to block him from giving evidence to the independent Sayce review. The problems he flagged never went away. As of early 2023, DWP was chasing more than 134,000 unpaid carers to recover over £250 million in overpayment debt, with nearly 12,000 cases involving debts between £5,000 and £20,000. Some carers had their inheritances seized. Some faced prosecution. All of this while DWP called them "unsung heroes" in press statements. The government-commissioned Sayce review later acknowledged La Rocca's contribution directly, noting it was not easy to raise issues in a large institution and that he deserved thanks for persisting across time. A junior civil servant with no power, no platform, and 27 years of service spent seven years trying to protect some of the most vulnerable people in the country. The department thanked him by sacking him, blocking him from giving evidence, and then quietly accepting the conclusions he had been trying to force on them since 2018. That is what whistleblowing looks like in the real world. Not a dramatic Senate hearing. Not a Netflix documentary. A man in Preston repeatedly telling the truth to people who did not want to hear it. Sources: @TheCanaryUK @BBCNews @VoxPolitical @guardian

Keir Starmer should rip up Ed Miliband’s “unnecessary” net zero agenda, Tony Blair tells #TimesRadio. “It’s not that I'm a climate denier, but it's just coming to terms with this reality.” @CalumAM

Today the next energy price cap was announced. Our @UKLabour Government is taking action to ease the cost of living for families across Wales and we're planning for all winter contingencies. We must de-escalate the conflict in the Middle East to bring oil and gas prices down.

!!! HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY CALL !!! As of yesterday, German authorities seized the bank accounts of my wife. She is not sanctioned and has committed no crime. As of now we have only ca. 104 euros left — with two newborn babies and one 7-year-old child!!! @yanisvaroufakis @ClareDalyIRL @wallacemick @kennardmatt @Stella_Assange @PLottaz @Miquel_R @irezugasti @RSF_inter @amnesty_de @amnesty @_ZachFoster @CasparShaller @AliAbunimah @MaryKostakidis @der_neukoellner @SevimDagdelen @mkhalili @LaBase_TV @PabloIglesias @falasteen47 @EyeonPalestine @newscord_org @FWarweg @jungewelt @FuocoSavinelli @AlanRMacLeod @MintPressNews @wallacemick @_jneumann @amnesty_de @ChrisLynnHedges @IJFMedia @Fidias0 @johnnyjmils @goldi @CPJ_Eurasia @fehimtastekin @georgegalloway @euobs @AssalRad @OrenZiv_

🇮🇱 Israeli Funghi Discovery Could Transform Farming Hebrew University scientists discovered a natural fungus-based method that helps crops grow bigger, faster and tastier. Tomatoes grew 60% heavier and melons produced five times more fruit, without chemical fertilizers or pesticides 🍅 israel.com/science/natura…