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Accommodation Support for Disabled Students
15 January 2025 | Resource
... Act 2010, it is unlawful to refuse accommodation based on disability. Both universities and private landlords are ... to accommodate wheelchair access, installing walk-in showers, lowering sinks or adjusting countertop heights in ... the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), determines how your health condition or disability affects your ability to work. ...
MPs publish report that aims "to take an axe to the root causes of destitution" in the UK
10 July 2019 | News
... and hungry”. The MPs recommend that: Universal Credit payments should begin within a week of registering for the ... people where they could lead to homelessness, worsening health outcomes, or where children or dependents are ... involved. People undergoing assessments for sickness and disability benefits should be seen, wherever possible, by ...
Office for Disability Issues moves to new Equalities Hub
31 October 2019 | News
From today (1 November 2019), the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) has moved from the Department for ... "We welcome this move. It’s always been difficult to see how joined up government on disability issues could be ... from the DWP." The Minister for Disabled People, Work and Health, Justin Tomlinson MP, will remain within the DWP. ...
Safeguarding adults review slams ‘confused’ enquiry into learning-disabled men’s injuries
22 April 2018 | News
... fractures during the morning of 1 April 2015. Sussex Health Care, the company that runs Beech Lodge, has since ... were involved too late, it found, while allowing Sussex Health Care to take a lead role into determining events at ... had children been involved. “This case demonstrates how the approach to injuries inflicted on vulnerable adults ...
Adult social care in England: overview
13 March 2014 | News
... is important to understand this in the context of the wider healthcare system of acute and primary care. There are no ... changes radically. The report points out that government does not know if the limits of the capacity of the care ...
DPO consortium calls for BBC not to push the Red Button service
19 January 2020 | News
... The National Federation of the Blind UK (NFBUK) and Disability Rights UK is calling on the BBC to keep its Red ... 2020; * Immediate clarification and public scrutiny on how the BBC came to the decision to switch off the BBC Red ... people, who are not online, or do not use the internet much and other groups of people who are important for these ...
Our response to the spending review
27 June 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK want to see social support that puts ... and so we welcome the Government has taken this step. “However our welcome is tempered on two fronts - firstly the ... the spending review, it would appear that the Government does not plan to widen access to the social care system from ...
Government fails to restore disabled people’s rights
30 September 2020 | News
... rights of disabled children to education support. Over 100 disability and human rights organisations and over 500 ... joined by 28 peers, wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, asking for full Care ... care under any circumstances. It is a dire indication of how this government, on the verge of releasing its National ...
JETS scheme to help jobless overlooks disabled claimants
05 October 2020 | News
... offering a range of help, including specialist advice on how people can move into growing sectors, as well as CV and ... group’. So JETS excludes those UC claimants with a disability or long term health condition who have ‘a limited capability for ...
We want more disabled people on Boards
09 September 2013 | News
... Disability Rights UK would like to see a similar review which considers how to enable more disabled people to sit on Boards. We ... professionals with lived experience of disability or health conditions. We want more disabled people on Boards ...