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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 ...
£299 cost of living payment to be issued between 6 and 22 February 2024
19 January 2024 | News
The DWP has said that the third cost of living payment of £299 for 2023/2024 will be sent automatically ... February and 22 February 2024. This is the third of three payments over the financial year, totalling up to £900. The ... need to contact DWP or do anything to receive the payment.However, if a someone becomes retrospectively entitled to a ...
NHS Test and Trace system risks failure without adequate sick pay, says TUC
09 September 2020 | News
... system risks failure unless ministers boost Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) and ensure everyone is eligible for it. The ... new survey - carried out for the TUC by BritainThinks – shows that two-fifths (43%) of workers would be unable to pay ... benefits system unfit for purpose, says TUC available from disabilityrightsuk.org. NHS Test and Trace system risks ...
DR UK oppose Illegal Migration Bill
16 May 2023 | News
... against women and girls, LGBTQI+, disability rights, health, housing, racial justice, criminal justice, arts, ... attacks the very core of human rights, which is the fundamental belief that we all have human rights regardless of ... to liberty, which are all threatened by this Bill. Not only does the Bill substantially threaten human rights, it aims ...
EASS helps in challenging travel insurance quote
27 April 2015 | News
... quote for travel insurance due to statements made about health on an online form. The caller was planning a holiday ... the insurance offered. EASS gave the caller advice on how the Equality Act works within insurance services. The ... Although no legal representation is provided, the service does all it can to try and work with you to find an informal ...
DPO Forum write to DWP Minister voicing opposition to possible disability benefit cuts in the upcoming Green Paper
13 February 2025 | News
... Work Capability Assessment (WCA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Green Paper, the DPO Forum says that it is ... “We have serious concerns about the potential cuts to the disability benefit system, which many of our members rely on ... may cover plans for wide-ranging changes of the entire health and disability benefits system, in addition to the ...
Disabled People To Be Hit By Cuts Of Almost £2 Billion More Than Widely Reported
02 April 2025 | News
... being pushed into poverty, including 50,000 children. However, the NEF says that the way these figures have been ... independence payment (PIP) assessment and cutting the health top-up in Universal Credit (UC) will see Disabled ... losing benefits and the threat of conditionality all fundamentally undermine the sort of genuine engagement with ...
Over 200,000 disabled people at risk of homelessness due to housing benefit freeze
25 June 2017 | News
... means that most LHA rates will stay the same regardless of how much private rents have gone up by in each local area. ... number includes: 211,070 households where someone claims a disability benefit; 586,368 Families with dependent ...
Kings Fund on State of health and care in England
17 October 2017 | News
Kings Fund says health and care services are at full stretch and struggling ... improved the quality and safety of care since inspections. However, the report indicates variations between and within ... improvements in care and not just to hold up a mirror to how services perform now. It also has more work to do to ...
Council school transport policies must not fail disabled young adults
06 August 2018 | News
... to drive her son to the college identified in his Education Health and Care (EHC) Plan, when he turned 19. The ... social care assessment once he became an adult, including mental capacity, transport and care needs during the ...