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Strategic partner updates November 2015
28 October 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 ... in full at www.cqc.org.uk/stateofcare . LGB&T People and Mental Health - Resources for practitioners and service ...
MPs urge rule change to enable UC to be payable to disabled students
01 August 2017 | News
Seven members of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Disability have written to the DWP Minister Damian Hinds to ... and attend colleges and universities away from their home. However, this ability is denied to them under Universal Credit as it does not automatically treat them as having a “limited ...
New report says sanctioning disabled people does not work and makes them ill
21 May 2018 | News
... You can view the full report or the findings in relation to disability Key findings Extending welfare conditionality to disabled people in receipt of incapacity benefits does little to facilitate their transitions into paid work. ... based on the experience and level of impairment, illness or health condition. Improvement in quality of training support ...
Hate crime guidance by Disability Rights UK, with the Office for Disability Issues, for disabled people on how to report hate crime or harassment
23 February 2012 | News
... and so are prosecutions, which went up to 579 in 2009-10. However, around half of disabled people say in surveys that ... whether it is verbal abuse from children on street corners, mental persecution by those who are meant to provide care or ... adults who had experienced hate crime reported that a health condition, illness or impairment, or disability was ...
Broken benefits system forcing thousands of Disabled people to fall behind on payments and skip meals
31 August 2021 | News
... as ESA and Jobseeker’s Allowance, are facing considerable mental health and physical challenges as the pandemic has left them struggling financially, new research shows. The stark findings are from the latest Disability ...
TUC Slams “Zero Progress” on Disability Pay Gap in Last Decade
14 November 2023 | News
New analysis shows pay gap between non-disabled and disabled workers is ... "game changer" for disabled workers, introducing mandatory disability pay gap reporting and a day one right to flexible ... 3.3%). And the analysis shows disabled BME workers face a much tougher labour market – one in 10 (10.4%) BME ...
05 Strategic partner updates June 2015
04 June 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 ... and may be interested in these discussions we very much look forward to hearing from you. Please get in touch ...
Decades of failure leaves half of disabled benefit claimants in poverty
23 February 2021 | News
... by The Social Market Foundation and Scope . The analysis shows that: almost half of all people in poverty are either ... report, provide the Government with an opportunity to take much needed immediate action to support disabled people. ... are in poverty compared to 15 years ago.” He added: “It doesn’t have to be this way. A welfare system should be ...
03 Strategic partner updates April 2015
31 March 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 ... from April, to keep people well, and bring home care, mental health and community nursing, GP services and ...
Social care sector unites in condemning Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill
07 February 2019 | News
... unites in open letter to Ministers criticising careless Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill Over 100 social care sector ... Dinenage MP, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Lords), Baroness Blackwood seeking clarification and ... and adequately fund the changes it will bring, given that much of the sector is already at financial breaking point. ...