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  • Lack of detail is delaying the social care green paper

    15 April 2019 | News

    ... proposals, Sue Bott, director of policy and development at Disability Rights UK, said some of the proposals discussed ... as we could, which was strange because we didn’t know much about the detail.  “The people who are suffering ...

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  • Disabled peoples problems accessing primary care

    12 March 2015 | News

    A new Healthwatch England report says disabled people face major ... exists to serve people living with health conditions or disability. Primary care services that get access right will ... the law to treat someone less favourably on grounds of disability or fail to take reasonable steps to ensure ...

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  • Social care faces Coronavirus and immigration ‘perfect storm’

    10 March 2020 | News

    ... outside the EU. The Office for National Statistics figures show an estimated 110,000 current vacancies in the sector. ... be barred from recruiting overseas workers for jobs that pay less than £25,600 a year. The average salary for care ... see an increase in care needs for those with underlying health conditions at the same time as an increase in key ...

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  • No indication of bedroom tax evictions says Minister

    13 May 2013 | News

    ... additional funding if the planned discretionary housing payments funding is insufficient to prevent evictions as a ... are no current plans to increase discretionary housing payment funding. There are no indications that evictions ... the removal of the spare room subsidy. The Department has however commissioned a consortium led by Ipsos MORI to ...

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  • Students and Universal Credit

    10 June 2013 | News

    ... a couple where both are students); is disabled, entitled to disability living allowance or personal independence payment and satisfies the work capability assessment; is ...

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  • PIP claims by terminal ill cancer patients being rejected

    23 October 2017 | News

    ... had their PIP claims rejected in the last year, reports the Disability News Service . All the decisions were later ... dishonesty he was witnessing, but he said no-one had been paying any attention to what he was saying. The council’s ... so far heard from more than 250 PIP claimants who say that healthcare professionals from government contractors Atos ...

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  • Living Wage risks catastrophic collapse of care

    19 August 2015 | News

    ... In a letter to Chancellor George Osbourne, Four Seasons Health Care, BUPA, HC-One, Care UK and Barchester say ... the care home industry, said: "Without adequate funding to pay for the National Living Wage, the care sector is at ...

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  • Universal Credit: progress update report

    24 February 2015 | News

    ... must establish more robust and costed contingency plans for how it would handle further delays in the digital service, ... service for this role. The Department needs to reflect on how it will tackle the potential problems of paying the housing benefit element of Universal Credit ...

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  • Exciting Funding Opportunity for Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs)!

    25 July 2023 | News

    ... Opportunity for London Communities The NHS Legacy and Health Equity Partnership (LHEP) and the Greater London ... support community organisations. This initiative addresses health inequity and healthcare exclusion. The grants, ... welcomed. To assist you in the application process, Disability Rights UK will organise a virtual application ...

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  • DBC PIP 20m consultation response

    05 August 2013 | News

    Disability Rights UK fed into this response to the PIP 20m ... again on the mobility criteria for Personal Independence Payment (PIP). While we recognise that throughout the ... referred to as the ‘reliability criteria’). However, while this is a positive step, we are deeply ...

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