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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Guidance on Work Capability Assessment reassessment published
05 October 2017 | News
DWP reveal how it will decide not to carry out WCA reassessments. DWP ... Treatment of claimants with the most severe and lifelong health conditions or disabilities ( word and pdf ) Severe ... and severe acquired brain injury. However, the guidance does makes clear that “this list is not exhaustive”. In ...
AGM January 2015
26 January 2015 | News
Disability Rights UK 3rd Annual General Meeting: 26 January ... concerning indefinite awards of discretionary payments as well as suggestions for the treatment of DLA ... request on this issue . to ensure the DWP sanctions policy does not unfairly penalise disabled people . Over the next ...
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 ...
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 ...
Welfare Reform and Work Bill: Joint briefing on support for housing costs for 18-21 year olds
06 October 2015 | News
... groups will be exempt, but have not yet confirmed how this would work in practice This joint briefing ... olds the briefing states: c) Those with a disability or mental health problem receiving the equivalent of Employment ...