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Disability and Migration network condemns Rwanda Bill
23 April 2024 | News
... of Lords delaying and amending the bill many times. The Disability and Migration Network , a network made up of ... of Disabled people”, causes “trauma and preventable mental distress”, and makes us “feel like criminals” ... access our most basic human needs including food, housing, healthcare, and safety. During this cost of living crisis, ...
DWP WCA Maximus contract statement: Our response
30 October 2014 | News
Disability Rights UK receives huge numbers of distressed ... Assessment; and be met by an assessment process that knows how to treat disabled people, to make adjustments and to ... in the assessments (which we disagree with). Where DR UK does engage in work with any company we insist that we will ...
Government proposes SSP extension to those earning less than lower earnings limit
15 July 2019 | News
... has set out proposed new measures “to transform how employers support and retain disabled staff and those with a health condition". Under the new measures the lowest paid employees would be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) for the first time, while small businesses may be ...
New Personal Health Budgets and NHS Continuing Health Care factsheet
09 July 2017 | News
If you have a primary healthcare need, you can receive free care and support funded by the National Health Service NHS to enable you to meet your healthcare ... a "continuing care package" if they have needs arising from disability, accident or illness that can't be met by ...
Funding from charitable trusts
23 September 2024 | Resource
... considerably. Part A of the factsheet gives advice about how to apply to trusts. Part B lists trusts that may help ... Be clear about what you need the money for and how much you need Be concise. Write enough to say why you need ... institution in Great Britain. The student’s nationality does not matter and there is no age limit. Grants are ...
Safeguarding vulnerable claimants: Work and Pensions Committee launches new inquiry
26 July 2023 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee of MPs is to examine how the DWP supports vulnerable benefit claimants and ... has a duty to safeguard “vulnerable people”, and if it does not, whether it should. It is set to take evidence from ... DWP safeguarding, after decade of deaths available from disabilitynewsservice.com. See also our related news ...
I Can Make It activity and Ministerial support for the Social Value Act
20 July 2017 | News
... made by Penny Mordaunt the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work on 13 th July, in a speech to Localis , an ... and I’m committed to making this the way government does business by default, staring with DWPs own ... Rahul Tooray, our Champion for I Can Make It in Birmingham. However, we will be campaigning with the confidence that our ...
Around 60% of households with a disabled adult will be hit if £20 week UC uplift scrapped
16 February 2021 | News
... a year cut to their benefit. The Fabian Society report shows how the cut to UC will reduce the living standards of ... to work or to increase their earnings. This raises fundamental questions of justice and morality. The chancellor ... £20 per week uplift. In recent weeks a group of leading health and care bodies and the Trussell Trust have added ...
Stop Benefit Deaths campaign launched
28 June 2020 | News
Eighteen leading charities and mental health organisations, including Disability Rights UK, Mind, ... were stopped. A recent report by the National Audit Office showed that the Department for Work and Pensions investigated ...
Progress on enforced hospitalisations ‘too slow’
07 April 2022 | News
A new CQC report shows that not enough progress has been made to address the ... to restrictive interventions. In 2018 the Department of Health and Social Care commissioned the Care Quality ... a learning disability, autistic people, and people with mental distress. Progress on meeting the recommendations ...