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Thousands struggle to buy food
02 April 2020 | News
... disabled people. The government is now actively considering how the scheme could be extended and improved. Fazilet Hadi ... as online and for people to be given clear information on how their personal data will be used. “Supermarkets and ... people.” DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick has written to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock about food supply. You can ...
Apprenticeship and skill conference overview film
12 December 2016 | News
... This free seminar was intended to broaden understanding of how to overcome barriers to progression into work experience ... for people living with a range of impairments and health conditions. View a report of the day and ...
Coronavirus strategy hinders stroke recovery
23 September 2020 | News
Thousands of stroke patients have suffered avoidable disability because of interruptions to NHS care during the ... Policy Fazilet Hadi said: “This is yet more evidence of how people with health conditions and disability have borne the brunt of the ...
Choice, Control and Independent Living: Putting the Care Act into practice
18 October 2018 | News
... specific areas of concern: assessments, charging, direct payments and safeguarding. It finds an estimated 1,300 ... are difficult for people to complete policies on direct payments, including the focus on pre-payment cards, and delivery of the support service, are ...
Overcoming your disability within employment
20 July 2016 | News
... in the UK vs USA and Canada. You can read his blog on the Disability Today website Overcoming your disability within employment ...
Getting to Know PIP event thoughts
06 May 2013 | News
Disability Rights Tribunal Support Adviser Robbie Spence was ... on PIP see our Factsheet F60 - personal independence payment Getting to Know PIP event thoughts ...
Our response to the halving the disability employment gap inquiry
10 May 2016 | News
... was elected on a manifesto commitment to halve the disability employment gap. Their ambition was the subject of ... there are set to be insufficient vacancies in the economy. However we do support the commitment and have identified the ... and have also offered specific and developed proposals for how this might be achieved with the involvement of disabled ...
Supporting disabled students into work
14 October 2013 | News
... Innovation and Skills. The project will investigate how universities can better support disabled people into ... reflect on their current practices to ensure they advance disability equality. It will involve interviews with ... courses and universities, who have an interest in advancing disability equality to join an advisory group. The group ...
Decisions made on only 1 in 5 PIP claims
10 February 2014 | News
New DWP statistics published today show that only 34,200 of the 220,300 disabled people making a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim have received a decision. The new data ... claims have been succesful. In addition, the new figures show a sharp decline in the proportion of succesful PIP ...
79 percent of DLA reassessments move to PIP
16 September 2014 | News
... while they undergo evaluation they are labelled as experimental statistics. These statistics cover new claim caseload ... awards up to 31 July 2014. The statistics on PIP decisions show that 79% of those, previously on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) who were reassessed for ...