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We're recruiting!
07 December 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK wishes to hire a young Disabled person ... participating in internal and external meetings, and much more. Further information can be accessed by clicking ... you have any questions please contact us at recruitment@disabilityrightsuk.org , or telephone 0330 995 0400. We're ...
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 ...
Government accused of breaching UN convention in its treatment of disabled people
20 August 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK accuses the Government of ... “dismissing” the findings and recommendations of the UN disability committee’s report, describing it as a ... her care package had been cut and she wasn’t able to pay a carer to bring her, she said. “The Government will ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...