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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 ...
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. ...
1.5 million children will need mental health support due to pandemic
15 December 2020 | News
... Covid-19, while Mencap’s social care survey has shown that seven out of 10 people with a learning disability ... “Looking at long-term consequences, the Centre for Mental Health estimates that 1.5 million children will need mental ...
Read our submission on UC natural migration
18 February 2019 | News
... the spectrum of disability and health conditions, including mental health conditions, learning disabilities, dementia ... repaid leaving claimants to live on reduced income - debt doesn’t ease food poverty. The current waiting period ... for people needing to claim universal credit is welcome. However, the location of Citizens Advice offices across the ...
Disabled people still facing discrimination over face coverings
13 July 2020 | News
... and that this should be respected. If the messaging doesn’t change, millions of disabled people will not be ... on, wear or remove a face covering because of a physical or mental illness or impairment, or disability if putting on, ... and Wales .” Source: Face coverings: when to wear one and how to make your own available from gov.uk. Disabled ...
Our response: Paying disabled people less for work
15 October 2014 | News
... Party conference. In response Liz Sayce, CEO of Disability Rights UK said: “We face a crisis of disabled ... the minimum wage "precludes a small number of physically or mentally disabled from working". Further to this Liz Sayce ... a greater say over their employment support and to decide how the money available is spent. Disabled people deserve ...
Pandemic school absence stats raise child mental health questions
15 July 2021 | News
Last week’s Department for Education figures show 1.5 million children were off school, raising concerns about high numbers of children refusing school for mental health reasons. About 840,000 pupils were off for ...
Disabled Activists Deliver Book Exposing Deaths At Hands of DWP To Every Member of Parliament
02 September 2024 | News
... House of Commons – one copy for every MP. The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid ... have died or taken their own lives as the direct result of disability benefit cuts and whose tragic stories are covered ... believe this will continue to happen if the government does not take the necessary steps to build a new, safer ...
New legal judgment denies PIP to those facing “overwhelming psychological distress”
13 January 2016 | News
... to the claimant” which attracts just four points and does not lead to an award of the PIP mobility component. ... disabled people who are accompanied out of doors due to mental health issues such as anxiety or panic attacks will be ...
Liz Sayce at Refocus on Recovery 2014
02 June 2014 | News
... What approaches and specific interventions are used with mental health systems to support recovery? What new technologies are emerging? How can both front-line interventions and within-system ... of existing and new relationships be better harnessed? Does a recovery orientation change the construction of ...