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Our popular mandatory reconsideration workshop
10 December 2013 | News
... sector equality duty or discriminate against people with mental health problems. The other main topic was what you can do if ...
New CQC resources to help health and care providers learn from safety incidents
28 June 2018 | News
... safety incidents’ – to help those in charge of running health and care organisations ensure the safety and ... Social Care, said: “When something goes terribly wrong in health and social care, the people affected, their families ... want this to happen to anyone else”. And we know that’s how staff and managers feel too.” New CQC resources to ...
SEND funding ‘black hole’ grew by 52% last year
04 May 2022 | News
The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) funding ‘black hole’ grew by 52% in ... more hoops to jump through, as the number of education, health and care (EHC) plans has risen by over 20% in the ... funding, where LAs are criticised for ‘spending too much’ when they are merely meeting need, when budgets have ...
Tory peer calls for UC uplift to be maintained
23 June 2021 | News
... David Freud told The Observer that it had taken a global health crisis for the welfare system to be provided with ... Fazilet Hadi said: “David Freud’s support is welcome. However, to say that ‘people not normally in the system’ ... not those who have to live on benefits permanently due to disability is somewhat galling. It is evident that benefits ...
Eighty civil society groups reveal UK failure to meet anti-torture obligations
06 May 2019 | News
... An increasing number of people are being detained under the Mental Health Act, with a 36% rise in the number of detentions ... at Disability Rights UK Sue Bott said: “The report shows that torture remains an issue in some state funded ...
Sanctions ineffective as a way of getting people into jobs or to work more hours, finds suppressed DWP report
12 April 2023 | News
... benefit sanctions and promised to make the findings public. However, it subsequently buried the report and refused ... benefit sanctions “ poses significant harm to the health, finances, and well-being of claimants ”. “The ... the recent publication of the Government’s Health and disability White Paper. “This proposes to the benefits ...
New DR UK updated benefit sanctions factsheet free to download
20 July 2020 | News
... a benefit sanction is the different levels of sanctions how long sanctions may last avoiding or reducing the risk of ... finding coercive ways to get people off benefits when their health or other critical factors clearly make this ... make a reality of the Government’s pledge to reduce the disability employment gap. Until then, it’s vital that ...
Discrimination: Thomas Cook ordered to pay £7,500
06 October 2014 | News
... a disabled woman win £7,500 from Thomas Cook for unlawful disability discrimination Janice Campbell was one of 1600 ... View judgement . Discrimination: Thomas Cook ordered to pay £7,500 ...
The budget must deliver great things for disabled people
21 November 2017 | News
... blog, Philip Connolly, Policy and development manager of Disability Rights UK discusses what would be a good or great ... enable people to try work and return to benefits if it doesn’t work out for them. The budget must deliver great ...
Universal Credit rollout to roll on
20 June 2018 | News
... and we will continue this. We have made changes—advance payments, direct payments to landlords, the two-week housing benefit run-on, ... over to universal credit. They said that the new system had much more flexibility, that most of the cases and examples ...