How to find out what a company did ?

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I’ve been trying to find out what services a (now dissolved) company offered but I can’t find the info all I can see is info on companies house but even when active there was no website or descriptions etc

Is there any way to find out? It’s quite important
Thanks

Have you looked if there is anything on social media? Forums? Reviews?

Hard to say without knowing what type of company it is

There’s nothing at all never was only the companies house info.
Some kind of ‘health’ company

Are you willing to name the company?

Does the Companies House record still show the filed accounts from when it was active? The statutory accounts will normally state in the directors report what the company's purpose (i.e. primary activity) is.

Search for the directors on LinkedIn?

Couldn’t find anyone on linkedin- some with same name but wrong details etc so not them

It said ‘86900 other human health activities’ under nature of business

I’m not sure I can name the company etc is that allowed ?

Nothing on google search at all?

Look on the officers page and find out who the directors were. Click on their names and if they are a director of any other companies it will give you the names of those companies.

Chances are that the directors will still be in a similar line of work, so there might be a company currently in business that you can find by searching online.

You haven’t said anything bad about them so can’t see an issue with naming?

Message me with the company name if you like and I'll have a look - I do this sort of digging all the time at work (finance & credit checking).

86900 is a sic code. Type it in google search and the company may come up on their list.

Yep it's a SIC code but quite a wide one. Have they done something wrong? If they're not legit they may not have a trail.

Yes it’s coming up as lots of various medical roles which would fit - but it seems to be very hard to find anything else out. It’s concerning me as it’s to do with the dwp as well- someone who had never met me wrote a medical report (as if they had met me numerous times) which has been used to reduce/decline pip on 2 occasions it took me a long time to get details of the author as it wasn’t named ! Yet it’s the person who had the company as I’d googled the name but that was all that came up and I’m intrigued to find out the nature of this company was it somewhere that did this regularly for the dwp? I had not seen it till my appeal and it was quoted

I can’t do much about it till I can find out on whose behalf this was written as even with other tests / assessments since to show this wasn’t accurate it is still quoted as beibg a processionals opinion yet I don’t know who this professional is and the company is dissolved !

Does the author claim to be a health professional or gave any titles or qualifactions on any documents.

Do you think it ever had a website? Could you take a guess at the address - like www.companyname.co.uk for example - and see if it is saved in the Wayback Machine ( an archive of websites): web.archive.org

The letter/report was not headed no date no address no signature just paragraphs

It was quoted and I was given a copy but it took months and months to get a name I kept being told they couldn’t give personal info to me.
It was someone I’d never met I was told they were a nurse but when I have the details to the nmc they said they ‘could not identify’ the person or get in touch with them

It’s just been playing on my mind I’d like to know what happened and how such a detailed yet innacurate letter can be written and used and from the perspective that I was met with and observed and assessed when I wasn’t and all the secrecy over who had written it.

I can’t find anything online anywhere I’m just trying to go back and find out what it was the company actually did

Maybe it was a nurse working as a Pip Assessor on behalf of the DWP or a private company. There must be a complaints department who can advise. I am no legal expert but is an unsigned report even appropriate. I am sure someone here will know.

The statutory accounts might help if they are still available. Also look up the directors on google and linked in.

If they had a government contract there may be details here
www.gov.uk/contracts-finder

Disability News Service ran an article about inaccurate assessments which might be of interest to you to read

I’ll have a look and dig around a bit

I thought that about what was essentially an anonymous letter surely it should have been on headed paper dated and signed etc it wasn’t even addressed to anyone just a series of paragraphs it took a long time to find out where it came from I just kept getting told I couldn’t have someone’s personal info ??

The accounts don’t tell me much but I’ll try to see if there was something on that link above it’s just annoying me as

1. I never met this person
2. the report was totally inaccurate
3. it has been quoted twice now