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Disabled Students Allowance for part time students
16 September 2013 | News
Student Finance England (SFE) will be responsible for processing all Part-Time Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) applications for Open University students starting their course on or after 1 September 2012.
From spring 2014 new Part-Time Open University students applying for academic year 14/15 will apply to SFE for their DSA.
These changes only relate to students applying for support from Student Finance England and do not affect the arrangements in Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales.
DR UK launches its new strategic plan
29 February 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK has produced a new Strategic Plan which ... Our intention to debate the ideas underpinning our work How we will make an impact and evaluate it How we will work with members How we will work with partners ...
Frank Gardner speaks at the Jack Ashley Memorial Lecture
05 July 2016 | News
... co-hosted by the Ashley family, the All-Party Parliamentary Disability Group and Disability Rights UK. After opening ... acquire an impairment during his working life. He talked of how important it was that some people encouraged him to ... going to the loo on a plane – and talked eloquently about how he and people around him got over and round the ...
New border control scheme "disaster" for care sector
18 February 2020 | News
... qualify to work in the UK. Unison, the UK’s largest healthcare sector union, branded the move “an absolute ...
Get Out Get Active in Roehampton, Wandsworth!
12 April 2017 | News
... Junior non-contact Kick Boxing Beginners running club Disability tennis Free swimming for men Back to Netball Rave ... welcome disabled people or people with long-term health conditions. During the first few months of delivery, ... information? Contact Kate Pieroudis, Peer Support Lead at Disability Rights UK 0207 250 811 or ...
Get Yourself Active contributes to new report from the National Outdoors for All Working Group
11 May 2021 | News
... by a group of 23 charities and organisations – including Disability Rights UK, the ‘Out of Bounds: Equity in ... studies of where Disabled people and people with long-term health conditions have encountered barriers to accessing ...
Update from Access to Work
18 August 2020 | News
... cannot use public transport to get into work because of a health condition. For further information see link: ...
Funding care financially benefits economy
03 June 2013 | News
... The National Autistic Society, Sense and Leonard Cheshire Disability suggests that restoring the £1.2 billion ... to the NHS, local and central government, and individuals. Disability Rights UK says ‘Investment in social care is ... often isolated, out of work, requiring more benefits and health care (at greater public expense). That is why ...
Extra £1.5 billion moved into Better Care Fund
30 October 2014 | News
... moved an extra £1.5 billion into the Better Care Fund, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has reported. The Better Care ... due to the transfer of extra Council and NHS funding. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: “Local authorities and ... together and painstakingly planned commissioning for adult health and social care with pooled budgets. “Budgets from ...
Maximus to replace Atos as WCA contractor
28 October 2014 | News
... with a branch in the UK, where it offers services in healthcare and employment assessments. For further ...