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Latest learning disabilities mortality statistics make for grim reading
03 May 2018 | News
... if you’re learning disabled, you’re more likely to die much younger than your family, friends and neighbours who ... it comes to health and social care. “It’s hard to see how this will happen when the Department of Health and NHS ... person (either with consent or following the appropriate Mental Capacity Act decision-making process). All people ...
Bedroom tax savings. Disabled people suffer most.
09 October 2013 | News
... 61%, for the latest year we have—and it has not changed much. The number of homes provided that have single bedrooms ... The early returns—and I stress they are early returns—show that local authorities are either managing those well or ... at this particular time. Baroness Sherlock (Lab): My Lords, does the Minister accept that last week the courts ruled ...
Disability Rights UK issue a statement in response to the chancellors remarks on benefit claimants today
02 October 2023 | News
... Work Capability Assessment, the test aimed at establishing how much a disability or illness limits someone's ability to ... investment in the NHS and social care, a huge investment in mental health services, free skills training and for those ...
Almost half of food bank users have money taken by DWP from benefit payments
30 November 2020 | News
... people to afford the essentials and can affect people’s mental health. More than half of households (53%) at food banks ... and Policy Adviser said: “In June 2019, a report by the Disability Benefit Consortium found that the five-week wait ...
Disability Rights UK response to joint committee report on Draft Care and Support Bill
20 March 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK urges a sustainable funding solution to ... is a real crisis in care. Resolving the crisis is as much a matter of funding as of law reform. We want the ... We believe the Bill to be a positive step forwards but it doesn’t do enough to give disabled and older people and ...
End the “Persecution” of Unpaid Carers Says DR UK
09 April 2024 | News
... income from a job, there are strict government limits on how much they can earn – currently £151.00 a week. ... the time they spend caring for someone so that the system does not punish them for misinterpreting complicated and ...
Census 2021 data shows increase in number of Disabled people.
26 January 2023 | News
... in England and Wales was “Do you have any physical or mental health conditions or illnesses lasting or expected to last ... out day-to-day activities?” was asked. The results showed that in England in 2021, there was a smaller ...
Strategic partner updates December 2015
30 November 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 ... organisations and larger charities. Disability Rights very much welcomes the conclusion by Olivia Butterworth, head of ...
SEND Tribunal Appeals at a record high
19 December 2023 | News
... over the same period. Most concerning and revealing, however, is the increase in successful appeals. In other ... SEND Tribunal isn’t a marriage guidance counsellor and it doesn’t take “sides”; it applies the law. It looks at ... The argument is always that SEND provision costs too much money but it's clear that the current gatekeeping ...
Labour launches its manifesto with promises on disability and accessibility
13 June 2024 | News
... job without fear of an immediate benefit reassessment if it does not work out With the planned Great British ... create plans to support more Disabled people and those with health conditions into work. We will devolve funding so ... create a sustainable National Care Service. We will explore how best we manage and support an ageing population; how ...