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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Benefit Sanctions More Likely For Black and Minority Ethnic Claimants
17 September 2024 | News
... to extreme hardship, including food bank use , poor mental and physical health and financial debt. Black and minority ethnic benefit ... and ethnic minority communities.” These disparities show clear evidence of structural racism, and this level of ...
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 ...
MPs Call for DWP To Have Statutory Duty to Safeguard Claimants
20 May 2025 | News
... of a broader set of recommendations to drive the “fundamental” cultural change needed to repair “sorely ... everyone in the department. In addition, the potential health impacts of all new significant policies must be ... the DWP have a statutory duty of care towards claimants. However, this should be coupled with a public inquiry into ...
Damning new MP report calls for end to long-term incarceration of people with autism and learning disabilities
15 July 2021 | News
... have been made off the back of a new report by the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee. The failure to ... “as if their condition is an illness instead of a fundamental part of their identity… The tragic result of this ... fatal misunderstanding is that they often do then develop mental or physical illnesses which are used to justify their ...