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HMCTS to use video and telephone hearings during Coronavirus outbreak
30 March 2020 | News
... and professional users. HMCTS has also issued guidance on how it will use telephone and video technology during the ... and slow roll-out. Given the current, unprecedented, public health emergency, we are prioritising making these ... capabilities available now, and will continue to improve how we use them as the weeks progress." HMCTS says that the ...
Government indecision causes 85 percent drop in homes for older and disabled people
28 August 2017 | News
... item This follows months of Government indecision about how to fund supported, sheltered and extra care housing. A ... to the survey’s findings, Sue Bott, deputy CEO of charity Disability Rights UK, said: "It is truly shocking to learn ... the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which purports to show Government cuts to disability support amounts to ...
Visualise to hold Visual Awareness Training in Cardiff and London
24 July 2017 | News
... Training raises your awareness of visual impairments and how to effectively support your customers and/or colleagues. ... a visual impairment. You will gain an understanding of: How to safely guide a person with a visual impairment ... as per the Equality Act 2010 The importance of eye health care Visualise to hold Visual Awareness Training in ...
We can help you in supporting disabled people to pool their personal budgets
25 January 2016 | News
... budgets or are you part of a pooling project yourself – Disability Rights UK would like to support you so we all ... or are part of a pooling project yourself - with Bernd.Sass@disabilityrightsuk.org Disability Rights UK currently run ... better shared sense of what it is important to achieve and how to go about it across patient cohorts and whole ...
Abandoned, forgotten and ignored' – report shows Coronavirus' impact on disabled people
24 June 2020 | News
... people have faced during the coronavirus crisis and shows how far away we are from equality. We need government and ... on the brink Abandoned, forgotten and ignored' – report shows Coronavirus' impact on disabled people ...
New DWP guidance on regulations excluding disabled students from Universal Credit
10 August 2020 | News
... Of the new guidance he said: "It completely leaves out how a disabled student is able to get out of the Catch 22 ... no opportunity to have a work capability assessment to show this. Can the policy intent of the new regulations ... students from Universal Credit entitlement available from disabilityrightsuk.org. New DWP guidance on regulations ...
Supreme Court rules employment tribunal fees must be scrapped and refunds issued
25 July 2017 | News
... against the government. Read full UNISON news story Disability Rights UK welcomes this judgement because ... (ET) or Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) were required to pay a fee, which could be as high as £1200. The Supreme ... Statistics published by the TUC at the end of last year showed that the number of working people challenging ...
Green light given by the Green Party to the Disability Scorecard
14 June 2024 | News
... political parties asking them to complete questions for our Disability Scorecard. The Disability Scorecard is a tool to grade the major political ... into UK law despite not mentioning this in their manifesto. However, on balance, it appears the Green Party want to ...
Councils not ensuring minimum wage paid to care workers
29 October 2014 | News
... make it a contractual condition for homecare providers to pay care workers for travel time, according to a Freedom of ... While just 7% of councils in England require providers to pay travel time, the picture is even worse in Wales with none of its councils instructing providers to pay for travel time. Non-payment of travel time means many ...
Second secret DWP benefit death report could open door for bereaved families
31 January 2021 | News
... release of findings from a second DWP investigation, the Disability News Service (DNS) reports. The family of Errol ... and ESA and other benefits were wrongly removed, have been shown a summary of the DWP internal process review (IPR) that ... be released in full. It's ironic that one aim of the DWP Health and Transformation Programme is to improve trust in ...