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Disabled people urged to back campaign on social care charges
02 February 2022 | News
... people urged to back campaign on social care charges Disability Rights UK is urging campaigners and disability ... in the House of Lords as peers debated the Government’s Health and Care Bill. Baroness Jane Campbell argued during ... and support for those who depend on it is no less fundamental than healthcare is to survival… In his foreword to ...
Offer of testing for PAs displaying Coronavirus type symptoms
22 April 2020 | News
Personal Care Assistants showing coronavirus symptoms or in self-isolation as a member ... coronavirus symptoms are eligible to be tested. Direct Payment recipients can now offer their PA’s a test if they ... of personal assistant since they are not currently priority Health and Social Care sector staff. Please read the ...
Young disabled people wanted to help smash employment barriers
21 June 2016 | News
... is looking for young people with disabilities and long term health conditions to join us in smashing barriers to ... our efforts to recruit young people with disabilities and health conditions onto the project. Our thanks go to Media ... to the team from Camelot. So if you’re 18-29, have a disability or long term health condition and wish to help ...
Another productive week for I Can Make It, regardless of the general election
08 June 2017 | News
... section Kathryn Woodhead managed to meet with Chris Howl, Policy and Equality Officer at Salford City Council . ... is being reviewed by the Salford Social Value Alliance on how it could be improved when it comes to employing more ... how councils could support employees with disabilities and health conditions. We had a positive reception from all ...
Benefit cuts independent living threat says report
03 December 2013 | News
... of all Habinteg tenants affected by the bedroom tax receive Disability Living Allowance. Only 15 per cent of tenants who ... these cuts: if disabled people cannot afford rent and have much less choice of accessible smaller properties, they may ... people. They also call for a rethink on service charges for disability-related adaptations. They oppose the cuts in ...
WCA tests “significantly” biased against poorer disabled people
09 August 2016 | News
... benefit claimants who have been re-assessed for ESA that shows that the WCA is disproportionately removing benefits ... research Jonathan Hume said: “With an accurate test of disability, it would be expected that areas with lower disability and ill health would find more people fit for work. As it stands, ...
MPs debate the disability employment gap
08 June 2016 | News
... Find out more Read the debate Link to video of the disability employment gap debate The Motion “That this ... reducing funding for specialist support for claimants with health conditions and disabilities through the Work and Health Programme; and calls on the Government to reverse ...
BMA Response to COVID-19 Letter
29 April 2020 | News
... also very grateful for the feedback we have received from Disability Rights UK, and other individuals and ... the measures the Government is taking to reduce demand for health services (through its policy on social distancing), ... health service. As the doctors’ professional association, however, we have a responsibility to begin to think now ...
We call for a single disability employment programme
15 May 2013 | News
... Sayce calls on Government to establish a one-stop single disability employment programme – with power in the hands of people living with disability or health conditions, backed by peer support and a strong role ... like learning from what others living with disability or health conditions have found useful: investment in Disabled ...
Disability Rights UK responds to Disability Action Plan
06 February 2024 | News
Yesterday evening, the government published their Disability Action Plan (DAP). With the law requiring a ... lives” – rather than long-term transformative goals. However, despite this looming deadline, government policy ... stakeholders and those with lived experience of disability. However, as warned by the Women’s and Equalities ...