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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 ...
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 ...
Disability Pay Gap Reaches Staggering Level of £4,300 a Year
07 November 2024 | News
• New TUC analysis shows Disabled workers effectively stop earning from today as ... of pay disparity with non-disabled workers • The disability pay gap is now 17.2% - meaning that non-disabled ... hours and earning power, meaning workers never know how much they will earn each week, and their income is subject ...
Why we should invest in independent living and empowerment
30 November 2015 | News
... in independent living and empowerment. Jane's speech – health creation [DRAFT TWO] My Lords, I would like to thank ... over your life it is stressful and leads to greater risk of mental and physical illness… Political if you have no ... they talk of the The recovery empowerment model which does not mean more psychiatrists and more beds. Instead, ...
CQC review of how NHS trusts investigate and learn from deaths
24 July 2016 | News
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is looking at how NHS acute, community healthcare and mental health trusts investigate deaths and learn from their ...
DWP “hounded disabled woman for years” before her “starvation” death, papers show
22 September 2022 | News
... repeatedly failed by other public bodies, documents have shown, the Disability News Service (DNS) reports. Sophia ... a 37 year old talented artist, who lived with significant mental distress and had a diagnosis of paranoid ... non-payment of rent. Although her family alerted her mental health team to the financial problems caused by the DWP ...
DWP makes few concessions on improving engagement with Disabled people
24 July 2022 | News
... that made a series of wide-ranging recommendations on how the DWP could improve its engagement with Disabled ... only two of its recommendations. The DWP, she said, does fully accept the following: DWP should make increasing ... rejected would make the way it engages with Disabled people much more and not less effective.” The DWP response: how ...
School bubbles to be popped, raising fears for Disabled children
05 July 2021 | News
... between ensuring that pupils are not disadvantaged with too much time off school, and recognising that there is still a ... the pandemic. A one size fits all ruling on bubbles does not mitigate this significant risk. “We are seeking ... urgent clarification from the Education Minister about how schools with pupils known to be clinically extremely ...