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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 ...
Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive
30 April 2024 | Opportunity
... people who identify as being LGBTQIA2S+; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working class ... with a covering letter to tell us why you want the job and how you meet the requirements outlined in the person ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
98% of British courthouses inaccessible
02 September 2020 | News
... 8% offer witness support/and or quiet rooms for people with mental health issues, only 10% offer dedicated children’s rooms, ... and only 16% are fully accessible for wheelchair users. However, 77% offer hearing loops and accept assistance dogs. ...
Our response to the CQC State of Care report
12 October 2016 | News
We echo the concerns outlined in the State of Health and Social Care report published by the CQC today. ... budgets are being cut, and restrictions are being placed on how people can meet their support needs. Every day we hear ... about and socialise in their local community. Not only does this state of affairs fly in the face of the ...
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 ...