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Parliamentary Review calls for reverse of £30 week cut to ESA
07 December 2015 | News
... disability move closer to work. the cut would make it much harder, as people would find it difficult to be able to ... to pay the bills. This would affect people’s health and mental health. the government should not push ahead with the ... work more closely with employers to increase awareness of how to best support disabled people and people with complex ...
Disability benefit reform: reducing the financial risks for Disabled people to try out employment
29 November 2022 | News
... (SSAC) has issued a briefing paper examining in detail how the current structure of benefits be changed to overcome ... following last year’s Shaping future support: the health and disability Green Paper . The Committee first ... a guarantee that if someone tries paid work and it does not work out, within a period of a year they can go ...
Our response to the Ministry of Justice Consultation on panel composition in tribunals
28 November 2016 | News
... Mind has also done a response , highlighting problems with mental health tribunals Disability Rights UK ( DR UK ) is a ... of success. DWP statistics for April 2015 to April 2016 show that as well as PIP appeals remaining continuously high ... someone on the panel who isn’t a doctor or a lawyer does make things easier for many claimants and they are more ...
State of Care for people with autism, learning difficulties and poor mental health 'worrying' says DRUK
14 October 2019 | News
Care provision for people with poor mental health, autism and learning disabilities is failing ... Bott says: "This is another worrying report from the CQC showing how services for disabled people, especially learning ...
Disability Rights UK submission to the Taylor Review
16 May 2017 | News
... – that is people living with any long-term physical or mental health condition or impairment, about 12 million ... the stated areas of interest of the Taylor Review, firstly how we can harness modern business practices to resolve the ... styles to support the differences between employees much more broadly. The cultures that disabled people want ...
Tens of thousands of claimants with mental health problems at “real risk” of losing their benefits due to “managed migration” to universal credit
26 September 2022 | News
... More than 850,000 of these claimants are known to have a mental health problem. Many thousands more are struggling with ... provide advance notifications of the five-week wait for payment and information about the option of an advance ...
UK On Track For Lowest Ever Benefit Levels By 2030
10 October 2023 | News
... to the state through issues such as worsening physical and mental health. Evidence also shows how low benefits make it harder for people to find ... work, including childcare costs, make entering employment much harder. The IPPR analysis highlights that a ...
Strategic partner updates November 2015 part 2
19 November 2015 | News
... commissioning. For any comments and/or ideas about how to strengthen ‘disabled people leading change’, ... impact on professionals and on what they are doing? How does this happen? Maybe your DPULO is already involved with ... post-diagnosis; comprehensive psychosocial approaches to mental health; preventing premature deaths; improving health ...
£20 week Universal Credit cut likely to lead to poorer mental health and wellbeing for thousands of families
12 September 2021 | News
The Health Foundation has warned that a planned £20 per week ... at the beginning of October, is likely to lead to poorer mental health and wellbeing for thousands of families. And ... areas of the country. Polling by the Health Foundation shows that there remains strong public support for making the ...
Severe mental health problems lead to poor physical health and early death
27 September 2018 | News
Public Health England report: Severe mental illness (SMI) and ... inequalities: briefing A new Public Health England report shows people with severe mental illness (SMI) suffer worse ...