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Disability coalition calls for talks with prime minister over human catastrophe
27 February 2018 | News
... published last August, made a number of recommendations but disability organisations which gave evidence to the UN say ... Association; People First (learning disability); National Mental Health System Service Users Network; UK Disabled People’s ...
CQC Demand System Change in 'Out of Sight - Who Cares?' Report
21 October 2020 | News
... community-based capacity and capability across education, health and care for people with a learning disability, autistic people and/or a mental health condition, after a review found undignified ...
Liz Sayce speaks at the RI World Congress
25 October 2016 | News
... Q&A session (she is the third speaker) Liz is speaking on how disabled people can define our own experience and create ... instance, people with dementia, or learning difficulties or mental health issues. DRILL is run by a partnership of ...
Reclaiming Our Futures Week of Action
28 August 2013 | News
... Fuel Poverty Action, the Network for Social Change, the Mental Health resistance network and The Edge Fund. DPAC says - ... UK Disabled People’s Manifesto setting out our vision of how the resources, structures and institutions of our ...
New £500 Test and Trace Support payment for people claiming qualifying benefits who are required to self-isolate
20 September 2020 | News
... for the £500 payment are contained in updated Pubic Health England guidance - Stay at home guidance for ... without adequate sick pay, says TUC Covid-19 pandemic shows our benefits system unfit for purpose, says TUC – available from disabilityrightsuk.org. New £500 Test and Trace Support ...
Government’s independent reviewer did not know of coroner’s report blaming suicide on the WCA
09 November 2015 | News
... (WCA) that warned it put at risk the lives of people with mental health conditions – to the expert they commissioned to ... WCA for the government in June 2010 believes he was not shown the coroner’s report: “I cannot recall the report. ...
Hackney Council sued after council home caused lung disease
26 January 2023 | News
... home. Now Max is taking the council to court over how it treated him and how sarcoidosis has impacted his ... been caused by exposure to mould . In December 2022, Disability Rights UK, as part of the Homes for Us Alliance ... Disability Rights UK, said: "As Disabled people, we pay too much for way too little. At the same time as increasing ...
Video hearings to be made available for Social Security and Child Support Tribunals
28 June 2020 | News
... hearings in all SSCS Tribunal regions. The decision as to how a hearing is conducted is a matter for the judge who ... for many others, who say have a learning disability or a mental health issue or need the advice and support of a ...
DWP staff fail in two-fifths of cases to meet new standards aimed at preventing claimant deaths
24 June 2024 | News
... or take their own lives. DNS has previously reported how DWP staff had to be repeatedly reminded what to do when ... that it has safeguards in place to protect them, including mental health training for all frontline staff. Ken Butler DR ...
DR UK wants true reporting on WCA
04 February 2014 | News
... total and it didn’t include a further breakdown to show that many people had stopped their claim because they ... tell us how you got here today The test is conducted by health care professionals – this masks the fact that ... may and indeed are making assessments of peoples mental health For many impairment groups there is no concept ...