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Key PIP mobility judgment issued
12 July 2015 | News
... if used, also applies a more severe test for anyone, with mental health conditions, whose DLA award is being transferred to ... that you need to be accompanied on a journey because of a mental health condition, ask your appeal tribunal to follow ...
BBC File on 4 looks at the Work Programme
04 November 2013 | News
... examined the Government’s flagship Work Programme to see how well is it working - both for those at whom it is aimed ... has been particularly poor for claimants whose illness or disability makes it hard to find a job. Despite this, the ... economy still struggling in many areas, is it asking too much? For more information and to download the podcast go 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 ...
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 Delegating Payments Guide
29 January 2015 | News
... that the majority of people needing assistance to make payments due to illness, capability or mobility challenges, ... were also not aware of each of the safer options to make payments, such as a prepaid card or opening up a second account. To help these consumers, a new Pay Your Way consumer advice guide from the Payments Council ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...