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Women and Equalities Select Committee: pandemic has had “profoundly adverse effects” on disabled people’s access to services
21 December 2020 | News
... access to food, and potentially discriminatory practices in health and social care services. Existing systemic problems ... communication impossible for people who lip read, and much more difficult for BSL users and disabled people who ... and urgently bring forward reforms which address fundamental problems of funding, consistency of support, ...
Students report human rights achievements
26 April 2015 | News
Equally Ours aims to help everyone understand how human rights benefit all of us in the UK. Disability ... Read the four reports: Disability Rights Considerations in Mental Health Law: An interview with Peter Edwards - Suzanna ...
80% of Disabled college children infected with contaminated blood died, Inquiry hears
23 June 2021 | News
A public Inquiry has heard how nearly 100 pupils at a specialist school for Disabled ... we just couldn’t understand why they were pushing us so much to have all these injections. “At the time we were ... An undated consent form allegedly signed by his mother was shown to the Inquiry. Webster said his mother had no memory ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Work Capability Assessment
23 April 2025 | Resource
... only one assessment is needed If your condition gets worse How is the work capability assessment applied? Completing ... work capability assessment in 2028. From then on, any extra health-related support in universal credit (to replace the ... can carry out a range of activities, both physical and ‘mental, cognitive and intellectual’ . Each activity is ...
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 ...
Funding Further Education for Disabled Students
07 October 2022 | Resource
... Learner Loans Funding for apprenticeships Traineeships How is disability-related support funded? Can I get funding ... provider is responsible for deciding who is eligible, how much to pay and how regularly to pay it. They’ll usually ... Website: www.sfc.ac.uk A non-departmental public body that funds Scotland’s further and ...