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Family of Errol Graham win judicial review challenge of DWP safeguarding policies
16 July 2020 | News
... capability assessment. He was known to suffer from serious mental health issues but in line with DWP safeguarding policies his ... DWP available from leighday.co.uk Also available from disabilityrightsuk.org: Stop Benefit Deaths campaign ...
Wheelchair users bus travel survey results
29 June 2016 | News
... mobility consultant, Director of People's Parking , disability rights campaigner , OU law student, meningitis ... an issue affecting only a small minority or whether it is much bigger. I also wanted to find out if it was manual ... as much as each other. In addition I wanted to discover how people would respond to being secured on a bus if it ...
Our attendance allowance information has been updated
29 August 2018 | News
... Our information covers: Who can get attendance allowance? How much is attendance allowance? How do I claim attendance allowance? Going into hospital ...
Presenteeism: UK’s Working-While-Sick Epidemic
08 August 2024 | News
... (IPPR) finds that the cost of “presenteeism” – detrimentally working through sickness – grew by £25 billion ... rights in an unequal environment. “What the IPPR report shows is consequences of employers poor practices in relation ... to caring for the health of their to their workers, so much so that they feel pressurised to work while ill.” The ...
Children’s residential care provider to close 28 homes in one week
04 May 2023 | News
... is especially true for children with learning disabilities, mental health distress or neurodiversity – where changes can ...
After Years of Campaigning, Government Acts to Improve Fire Safety for Disabled Residents
03 September 2024 | News
... the Equality Act already required such action to be taken, however, the Inquiry made it explicit. It has taken 7 ... be called Residential PEEPs. Through them, residents with disability or impairments will be entitled to a Person ... Parliamentary website. Fazilet Hadi, Head of Policy at Disability Rights UK said: “The campaign for PEEPs by ...
Highly unlikely that 69 suicide cases DWP has investigated in the past six years represents the number of cases it could have investigated
06 February 2020 | News
... providers, doctors and the police; and the Department does not have a robust record of cases investigated before ... were the cause of the suicide, but instead scrutinise departmental processes and “identify recommendations for change ... , leaving him without any income. "This new NAO briefing shows yet again that the DWP is failing in its safeguarding ...
MP Calls for Disabled Inclusive Business Industrial Strategy
26 October 2017 | News
... from all backgrounds. People who have disabilities have as much to offer as someone without a disability. We should treat them as such and our policies ...
No Voice Unheard, No Rights Ignored response
17 November 2015 | News
Government responds to the Department of Health consultation: ‘No Voice Unheard, No Rights ... services to people with learning disabilities, autism or mental health conditions In our response to the consultation we ...
Academy trust to bus disabled children to poorer school
30 May 2016 | News
... because of ‘limited resources’. Read Guardian article Disability Rights UK says: “Disabled students should have as much say over which school they go to as non-disabled ...