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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spending review 2013
25 June 2013 | News
... disabled students. We will be working with universities and disability partners to ensure disabled students continue to ... working families with childcare costs from autumn 2015. Health and social care An additional £2 billion a year ... with healthcare professionals. The Government will consider how to best support young unemployed people in 201516 to ...
Ofsted report misrepresents the main problems facing the SEND system
14 December 2022 | News
... - with a key focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, DR UK campaigners state that this report ... in the last year. The number of pupils with Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) has also grown by 51% since ... that these worse levels of attendance are "clearly detrimental to their education", without providing any ...
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 ...
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 ...