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Care Quality Commission seek ambassadors
10 March 2023 | News
The Care Quality Commission (the CQC) and Healthwatch are recruiting six campaign ambassadors to help ... them develop campaign messaging for people with a learning disability and autistic people, and to feature them as campaign spokespeople. Ambassadors will help the CQC and Healthwatch encourage other people with learning ...
Disability Rights UK’s reaction to the 2015 spending review
24 November 2015 | News
... calling for; and the announcement of the joint work and health unit. But the impact could be limited and we seriously struggle to see how the Government will reach its aspiration to halve the ... to live independently. View our spending review summary Disability Rights UK’s reaction to the 2015 spending review ...
Two new reports advocate Universal Basic Income with little concession to disability
17 March 2019 | News
... UBI, by itself, would never cover the additional costs of disability or be too expensive and difficult to distribute. ... means that with any UBI scheme it is likely that additional payments would remain part of a benefit system. DPAC argues ... for disabled people – The report seeks to postpone disability and housing costs issues till a later date, ...
Rehabilitation is everyone’s business consultation events
12 February 2014 | News
... work is to ensure that equal consideration is given to both mental and physical health in rehabilitation services. NHS England are now ...
DWP accused of blocking claimant suicide research
02 March 2022 | News
... A study examining whether benefit sanctions are linked to mental illness and suicide, increasing costs to the NHS, has ... had to force the publication of a DWP-commissioned report showing how people on low incomes who need to rely on disability benefits struggled to meet basic living costs, ...
Letter to Esther Mcvey re PIP mobility test
28 February 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK has written to Esther McVey MP for ... Organisations (DPOs) at the DWP’s Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Delivery Update and Claimant Journey Teach-in. ... ever stand then walk aided or unaided more than 20 metres. However, you were equally definitive and clear that the ...
Reform Spending Review recommendations
16 June 2015 | News
How to run a country: working age welfare Reform has ... through Universal Credit; Either taxing or means-testing Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment; Reconsideration of extending the Right to Buy to ...
Comment: Leaked sickness benefit cuts document
02 July 2015 | News
... which applies to people with disabilities or long term health conditions who claim Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit. If scrapped, their weekly payments would drop nearly £30 from £102.15, bringing it ... costs faced by disabled people arising from their disability. It is also used by many to cover the costs ...
DWP Plans for Bank Account Surveillance Likely to Breach Privacy Law and Could Amount to "Unlawful Discrimination”
07 May 2024 | News
... investigators. Many Disabled people set up bank accounts to pay for their social care, as these accounts hold capital that might be misidentified as fraudulent. However, new legal advice given to BBW, points out that the ... already face persecution from the DWP, the fraud rate for disability benefits is only 0.2%, these powers are a ...
DPOs Write Open Letter to Bristol City Council Over Outrageous Social Care Policy
15 April 2024 | News
Disability Rights UK, alongside Inclusion London, WinVisible ... the "Fair and Affordable Care" policy was withdrawn. However, the current budget is arguably worse, an insult to ... of us from communities of colour more often can't afford to pay privately for carers, so rely more on council services. ...