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Complaining about local authority decisions
07 October 2022 | Resource
... assessments residential care assessments This factsheet does not cover complaints about decisions on housing benefit ... If you don't know the name of your councillor or MP or how to contact them you can find out from your local library ... Social Services Act 1970 the Secretary of State for Health has the power to step in where a local authority ...
Top Tips for Inclusive Learning webinar event
20 November 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK and University of Greenwich Webinar - ... Areas covered by the Webinar What is inclusive learning? How does the Equality Act 2010 define disability and what are ...
Specialist Employability Support providers named
23 March 2015 | News
... the existing Residential Training College contracts. Disability Rights UK hope this means people facing the ... facing greatest barriers - like people with significant mental health challenges or learning difficulties or autism, or ...
Train companies to reduce ‘tannoy spam’
26 January 2022 | News
... Disabled people including people with visual impairments. However, we are aware that too many announcements can be difficult to process for people with other forms of disability, such as autism and mental distress. The Government has said it will work with ...
The consequences of poor DWP decision making: case studies needed
15 April 2021 | News
... a mobility vehicle Reliance on food banks Deterioration in health, including mental health, leading to an increased use of local services such ...
COVID had an outsized impact on Disabled people of colour
27 February 2023 | News
... to see. The commission, led by Voluntary Organisations Disability Group and chaired by Disability Rights UK chief ... people, family carers and care staff. And analysis shows how reports of unnecessary deaths among Disabled people ... only the "vulnerable". There is also evidence that existing health and care inequalities were exacerbated. 97% of ...
Over a quarter of students unable to access uni learning
08 September 2020 | News
... support. The survey called for more help with students’ mental health and wellbeing, as well as more targeted, personalised ...
New inclusion and accessibility guidance for buildings and environments
21 July 2023 | News
... everyone, regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, health condition, disability, ethnicity, or religion. It means considering the ... to creating inclusive buildings and environments is very much welcomed. Disabled people make up over 20% of the ...
Report reveals Disabled children disproportionately affected by UK cost of living crisis
07 June 2023 | News
... the parents of children with special educational needs and disability (SEND) , and found that children had been missing ... the recent report from SCOPE which found in its latest disability price tag report that Disabled households (with ... the leads at the Disability Poverty Campaign Group said: So much evidence is now pointing in the same direction, that it ...
Covid causing huge rise in Disability
06 April 2021 | News
... to new Office for National Statistics data that also shows that 1.1 million people in the UK are affected by the ... raising fears of stretched Special Educational Needs and Disability support. And the ONS has found that around 30,000 ... but the profession which has been hardest hit by the virus, healthcare, is the one most often so critically needed by ...