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Think Personal Act Local Care Act resources
29 January 2015 | News
... of more than 50 organisations committed to transforming health and care through personalisation and community-based ... they engage via the National Co-production Advisory Group. Disability Rights UK also has a Care Act resource page at http://disabilityrightsuk.org/how-we-can-help/independent-living/care-act-resource-page ...
New report suggests ESA quota system
03 December 2013 | News
... assessments , Kaliya Franklin, a leading independent disability campaigner, suggests that government policy has ... of those assessed to be placed in the support group. Any health professional who puts a higher number of claimants in ... to http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/type/pdfs/how-norms-become-targets.html New report suggests ESA quota ...
PIP has cost up to £2 billion more than keeping DLA
15 January 2019 | News
Government disability benefit spending has increased by 15% to 20% ... people whose incomes, independence and physical and mental well-being has been blighted by PIP. " Those hardest ... is our Freedom of Information Act request response which shows that around half of DLA claimants who were in receipt ...
Fundamental drivers of good co-production in the commissioning of disabled peoples' services
02 July 2018 | News
... have a stronger voice in the commissioning of social and health services. Read Anna’s blog Anna Denham has worked on several projects for Disability Rights UK (DR UK) since November 2015, mostly in ... organisations and local authority commissioning teams. Fundamental drivers of good co-production in the commissioning of ...
TLAP Care Act survey results published
03 July 2017 | News
... support made a positive difference to their wellbeing and health. Areas of major concern, however, highlighted by the survey were people’s ability ... The survey was commissioned by the Department of Health. It was carried out by 1,181 people aged 18 and over. ...
Your basic right to a qualified interpreter
19 January 2014 | News
Our Health in Your Hands has launched a campaign for the Deaf ... Deaf and Deafblind People (NRCPD) The campaign explains how to check if your interpreter is registered with the NRCPD and how to complain if you are refused a registered interpreter. ...
A Life Without Limits by Sir Bert Massie - DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick's Book review
17 November 2023 | News
... opinion piece you'd like to pitch, feel free to email media@disabilityrightsuk.org with the header 'BLOG SUBMISSION'. A ... the way it had always been done earned him respect and a pay rise. He blatantly ignored the strict ‘no passenger’ ... by Bob Niven and Ann Frye, it is this chapter that shows the scale of his hard work and the breadth of his ...
I Can Make It charges towards Christmas
15 December 2016 | News
... We look forward to more progress from them in the new year. However, we would like to thank all our champions across the ... as Liverpool and Nottingham. So if you are 18-29, have a disability or health condition live in and around either of those cities ...
Vital COVID information is inaccessible to BSL users
20 December 2020 | News
... the coronavirus pandemic, the majority of important health information provided by the UK government has not ... as it provided information online and live subtitles. However, by not providing information in BSL, the government ... government in the UK has managed to do this.” “With the Disability Strategy soon to be published, it would be a ...
Citizens Advice Scotland warns of “perfect storm” as inflation hits benefit claimants
20 July 2022 | News
... data from across the Citizens Advice network in Scotland shows that: advice need for food banks has grown by almost a ... risen by 25% over 2021-22. advice on universal credit overpayments nearly doubled from the average across 2020/21 to ... and a continuous review of the adequacy of social security payments to ensure they meet everyone’s needs suspending ...