phil samphire, who has cerebral palsy, was one of the first to join.people and the dwp, there's no two ways about it, and myjob was to get a better understanding between the two different groups. the whole thing about community partners was they wanted external people to inform the dwp how to engage better. phil was sent for an occupational health assessment, which recommended the dwp should provide him with voice—activated software for his computer. so your management were given an occupational health report that the dwp paid for that specified certain reasonable adjustments in the form of software technology? yes, yes, yeah. in 12 months, did you ever receive any? i was made to feel like i was just asking for things because i could. phil never got the reasonable adjustments he needed from the dwp. he also believes the community partners scheme was not taken seriously. did you find yourself being listened to? no, no... sometimes from individual staff members, yeah, but not from management. i think it looks good on paper, saying you employ disabled peo