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Disabled people paying vastly more for care in past two years
25 August 2021 | News
Disabled people are being told by councils to pay vastly ... amount of money they were previously requesting. The BBC looked at charges in 83 areas (only 83 local authorities out ... DR UK’s Fazilet Hadi said: “It feels criminal that Disabled people with the least resources have to somehow ...
“Barbaric and inhumane” care is “generating trauma” for Disabled children
27 April 2021 | News
... Care Committee has heard of the horrifying conditions that Disabled people live in. Benji O’Reilly, herself an NHS ... Local Safeguarding Children Partnership serious case review looking into the circumstances which led to autistic ... they are going under the radar of national consciousness. Disabled children are still being treated with the means and ...
More than £1 million for 10 new research projects led by disabled people
17 January 2018 | News
... £150,000 of National Lottery funding each, to explore how disabled people can live as full citizens in our society and ... practice. Each research or pilot project will be led by disabled people or people with long term health conditions; ... Kamran Mallick, Chief executive Disability Rights UK, which looks forward to a shift of focus, in 2018, when you will ...
Government announces halt to Disabled Facilities Grant increase
07 February 2024 | News
... a 2021 commitment to increase the amount of money to the Disabled Facilities Grant that disabled people in England can claim to adapt their homes, ... will be able to access it." The government also promised to look at reforming the test which it said was "complex" and ...
UN Committee Calls for UK Wide Strategy on Disability
24 August 2017 | News
... implementation of the CRPD and the status and treatment of disabled people in the UK. Special Rapporteur Stig Langvad ... to set world-leading standards for the treatment of disabled people. Two overarching areas of importance were ... administrations there to answer those questions. We look forward to working with the Government on improving the ...
Disability Rights UK submission to the Taylor Review
16 May 2017 | News
... Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is a national charity led by disabled people seeking change. Our focus is on the full participation of disabled people in UK society – that is people living with ... having insufficient agency themselves over what the support looks like, too little emphasis on mitigating their ...
140 disabled people ‘incarcerated’ in hospitals due to lack of accessible housing
10 March 2020 | News
... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/09/severely-disabled-boy-stuck-in-acute-nhs-bed-for-nearly-a-year Ahmed ... since the middle of April last year. Powell said: “I’m looking into this case as a matter of urgency. While ... now prioritising the case.” Every ‘excess bed’ day a disabled person unnecessarily spends in hospital costs the ...
Report shows millions of Disabled people living in cold homes
09 December 2022 | News
... YouGov has revealed that across the country, millions of Disabled people and those living with a serious health ... installation to contact the Good Law Project who are looking to challenge these transfers. For more information, ... from endfuelpoverty.org.uk. Report shows millions of Disabled people living in cold homes ...
Accessibility of mobility support for disabled people must be improved: new SSAC report
22 November 2020 | News
... scheme be improved in terms of its accessibility to disabled people. The report explores the current support in ... the DWP should use the forthcoming Green Paper - that will look at how the DWP and the benefits system “can best help disabled people” - to consider some of the difficulties ...
Labour Party disability and poverty review
20 May 2014 | News
... The Labour Party appointed an independent Taskforce: “To look at ways to break the link between disability and poverty, to review ways of helping disabled people meet the extra costs that disability imposes ... recommend changes to the social security system to maximise disabled people’s control over their own lives. The ...