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Dis Life: Insisting on helping a disabled person who doesn't ask for help is ableism
06 January 2023 | News
... baffled, until the penny dropped. She was looking at me. I mentally checked myself for visible war wounds – blood, ... without permission. We tend to welcome such things as much as an unexpected grope in a nightclub. Sometimes the ... Dis Life: Insisting on helping a disabled person who doesn't ask for help is ableism ...
DWP NHS Talking Therapies strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ill-health into paid employment will not work
03 January 2025 | News
... probability of them securing jobs, Government figures have shown. Disabled people’s mental health groups say the ... started, dropping by nearly £16 in the first year and as much as £23 a month by the seventh year. Amy Wells, senior ... cuts”. He said: “The tiny statistical positive effect does not justify the polluting of healthcare with coercive ...
Try Describing YOUR Sight - Madeline Close
10 April 2024 | News
... people make of her as someone with a visual impairment, and how being Disabled is part of her life and experiences, but cerrtainly doesn't define her. Why, when a complete stranger helps you ... more difficult to diagnose with fewer treatment options and much less research)? On reflection, it was rather odd ...
How Did We Get Involved In The Disability Rights Movement? DR UK Staff Blog Series! Part Five
28 August 2024 | News
... our paths into the disability movement, and learned just how much history and passion lies within our own staff team. ... my childhood and adulthood. This negatively affected my mental health which left me wondering if I was the ...
How Did We Get Involved In The Disability Rights Movement? DR UK Staff Blog Series! Part Two
07 August 2024 | News
... our paths into the disability movement, and learned just how much history and passion lies within our own staff team. ... of CND and campaigning against apartheid. Nevertheless he doesn’t recall having much knowledge or exposure to the ...
Mental health pay gap is a disgrace
07 August 2016 | News
The EHRC says pay gap between people with mental health problems and other ...
Disabled claimant died underweight, ‘unkempt and dirty’ after ESA and PIP wrongly stopped
31 October 2021 | News
... assessments and then restarted following interventions. However, the DWP seem to have lost the evidence showing why ... to the family. Benefits and Work said: “The ICE report doesn’t give the claimant’s cause of death. But there ... had been wrongly stopped by the DWP for over a year. Much of the evidence about the case has never been produced ...
Over 118,000 Disabled people denied compensation from DWP after benefits error cut payments
12 January 2022 | News
... health problems including an autoimmune disease, severe mental health problems and hypertension. For five years ... the benefits to which they are entitled. “We don’t know how many more Ms Us there are out there. That is why I urge ... Dan White said: “This error is coming off the back of the much-vaunted national disability strategy where a new dawn ...
Improved protections against forced fitting of pre-payment meters
19 April 2023 | News
... of Prepayment meters (PPMs) for people with severe health conditions including terminal illness, those over 85, ... the household that can top up the meter due to physical or mental incapacity. Energy companies must also attempt to ... supplier licence agreements in the autumn, there is still much more that could and should be done.” We do have some ...
How Did We Get Involved In The Disability Rights Movement? DR UK Staff Blog Series! Part One
31 July 2024 | News
... our paths into the disability movement, and learned just how much history and passion lies within our own staff team. ... that claim to speak for them. Róisín Róisín is not ‘mentally ill’, neurodivergent, or disordered – he is a ...