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Get Involved in Our Sounding Board Group!
25 September 2024 | News
... towards removing these barriers? Disability Rights UK are looking for new members for their Get Yourself Active (GYA) ... Sounding Board group! The Sounding Board are a group of Disabled individuals who meet every two months with the GYA team to discuss present barriers that Disabled people are facing in the sport and physical ...
Two-fifths of older adults in psychiatric wards got COVID
14 October 2020 | News
... affected by slow testing and poor PPE provision. The study looked at data from all 344 hospital patients across five ... completely unacceptable, and this is yet more evidence that disabled people are bearing the brunt of this crisis. “As ...
Government proposes SSP extension to those earning less than lower earnings limit
15 July 2019 | News
... measures “to transform how employers support and retain disabled staff and those with a health condition". Under the ... a period of sickness absence. The consultation will also look at how to improve the capacity, value and quality of ...
Supported housing funding to be retained in welfare system
09 August 2018 | News
... of improving the quality of homes must be addressed, and we look forward to now working with partners to make sure we ...
Ahead of the Arc report
12 December 2016 | News
... parties offers Government a plan to support a million disabled people into work Download 'Ahead of the arc' - word ... commitment to halve the gap between the employment rate of disabled people and that of non-disabled people by 2020. The ... MP and chair of the APPG on Disability said, “This report looks at factors that the DWP green paper on employment and ...
NHS Long Term Plan ignores crisis in social care says DR UK
06 January 2019 | News
... Alliance, said: “The new NHS Plan has much to offer disabled people, older people and carers but it will be like ... this NHS Plan, but today, with no Green Paper, this looks more like just a good excuse to kick the can down the ... care the financial backing it needs. “Millions of disabled people and older people rely on good social care ...
Work Capability Test Not Fit for Purpose
07 February 2013 | News
... fact that a cross party committee of MPs agrees with what disabled people have been saying so strongly. Fear does not ... for each individual. The work programme is not resulting in disabled people moving from ESA or incapacity benefits into ... “Government has made some changes to the test, but looking forward we see more problems ahead. Disabled people ...
Social welfare advice good business model
21 July 2014 | News
... that social welfare advice saves public services money. Looking at all work to date on Cost Benefits Analysis (CBA) ... benefits cases will have a substantial, immediate impact on disabled people, and that these changes might offset the measures put in place by the government to support disabled people to get into work and out of poverty. Advice ...
Extra funding for Scottish carers’ breaks
22 April 2014 | News
... an extra £250,000 of funding to provide short breaks for disabled children and their families, carers and young ... sector organisations to develop short break services for disabled children and their families. Take a Break, managed ... people than ever before are now acting as full-time carers, looking after loved-ones, often around the clock and seven ...
Ministers say thank you for all responses to the Improving Lives green paper
22 March 2017 | News
Penny Mordaunt MP, Minister for Disabled People, Health & Work and Nicola Blackwood MP, ... at the high level of involvement. Thousands of disabled people and organisations have responded to this ... you again for your engagement in the consultation, and we look forward to continuing to work with you, including ...