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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 ...
Invest In Disabled People, DR UK Tells Chancellor
25 October 2024 | News
... past 14 years we have experienced: lower social security payments alongside hostile benefit processes; reductions in vital services and support such as social care, health and Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND; disproportionate hardship and death during ...
Human Rights Watch to visit UK to gather evidence on institutional abuse
05 October 2023 | News
... gather evidence. The team will have a focus on people with mental health issues and learning disabilities as HRW has become ... high death rates have been exposed by the UK press and by disability charities in recent months. The visit comes just ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Impact of a no deal Brexit on health and social care evidence session
17 September 2018 | News
The Health and Social Care Committee will be holding an evidence ... medicines, medical devices or substances of human origin. How effectively stakeholders are planning for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit. How effectively they consider the Government is planning for ...
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 ...
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 ...