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APDA, DR UK and DPAC make stand against austerity
18 March 2019 | News
... oral statement by APDA, Disabled People Against Cuts and Disability Rights UK British government policy at national, ... borrow money that they are ill-equipped to repay. With many health, social care and public transport services devolved, ... compulsory detention/forced treatment powers contained in mental health legislation A shortfall in housing that meets ...
Universal Credit Advance Payments are pushing people to use food banks
04 June 2019 | News
... from StepChange Debt Charity and the Trussell Trust shows that Advance Payments – the loans people can apply for while they wait ... clients who had money taken from benefits to repay debt showed 71% saying it caused them hardship and a quarter had ...
Northern Ireland Ombudsman commences investigation into handling of Personal Independence Payment
24 June 2019 | News
... investigation into handling of Personal Independence Payments available @ https://nipso.org.uk Northern ... investigation into handling of Personal Independence Payment ...
Thousands of young Disabled people missing out on extra cost benefits
20 August 2024 | News
... has found that the number of under-16s in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in England and Wales has ... disability benefit awards has had fiscal consequences, however, children’s disability benefits remain a ... four-fifths of initial Child DLA-to- Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessments led to a PIP award. Although ...
Disability benefit awards extended by six months if due for reassessment in next three months
22 April 2020 | News
... today said that the DWP is automatically extending disability benefit awards by six months if they are due for ... to get adequate medical evidence so we are relying very much on the claimant’s case as they explain it.” The ... session is available from parliamentlive.tv. Disability benefit awards extended by six months if due for ...
Government has broken equality laws during pandemic, Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary tells EHRC
20 October 2020 | News
... Executive of the EHRC, she says that evidence of poorer health and economic outcomes has been ignored when laws have ... breaching the Equality Act. She said: “Equal opportunity does not mean treating everybody the same and seeing who ... had associated EIAs. It highlights ONS statistics which show that 59% of people in England and Wales who died of the ...
Ensuring access to justice for vulnerable people will be at the heart of the Government's Court and Tribunal digital reform programme
02 October 2019 | News
... Dr Natalie Byrom, sets out 29 detailed recommendations for how Her Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service’s ... characteristics – for example, in relation to age, mental or physical disability, gender, and other factors associated with ...
Full migration of UC by March 2023 a viable plan
10 July 2018 | News
... target by March 2023? Neil Couling: I am deliberately not showing too much of my hand on this at the moment, because I want to ... here—as Members of Parliament, you will know this—is how claimants react in contact with the plan. The one thing ...
Government Special Educational Needs report is released
03 March 2023 | News
... be built, which will add to the 49 already in the pipeline. However, a £70 million “Change Programme" – which will ... children and young people’s needs through Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) is digital-first, quicker and ... in support for children with SEND and their families. Disability Rights UK Head of Policy Fazilet Hadi said: ...
Underspend Exposes Failures of Access For All Rail Programme
15 October 2024 | News
... those who have a range of disabilities may be in for a much longer wait to get to their local rail station - a ... that the new Labour government has to date been silent on how they are going to improve accessibility across our rail ... addressed in the government’s plans for rail reform. Disability Rights UK call on the Department for Transport ...