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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Georgia's Story - Apprentice and Award Winning TEDx Speaker
04 February 2025 | News
... and Award Winning TEDx Speaker, tells her story about how completing an apprenticeship has been a launchpad for ... or therapist . My dad challenged me to explain to him how going to University was going to add value to my life ... my career! It was when I realised I couldn’t actually see how it would, that I thought I would prefer to develop my ...
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 ...
Latest PIP statistics published
16 December 2014 | News
Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to October 2014 On the 31 October 2014, 208,000 people had a PIP claim in payment, an increase of 101,000 (95%) on the previous ... reported quarterly figure (July 2014). Of these claims in payment at 31 October 2014: 25,000 (12%) were assessed under ...
Accessibility of mobility support for disabled people must be improved: new SSAC report
22 November 2020 | News
... should use the forthcoming Green Paper - that will look at how the DWP and the benefits system “can best help ... element to children under three and for some who acquire a disability after state pension age); and exploring whether ...