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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 ...
DR UK reaction to the Chancellor's Autumn Statement
17 November 2022 | News
... benefits in line with September’s inflation from April. Disability Rights UK, as part of the DPO Forum England, has ... gap for years due to a lack of meaningful increases. £150 doesn’t touch the sides. Fuel costs are set to continue to ... he will “protect the most vulnerable”. Today, he has shown that he is not willing to go far enough to make good on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...