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1 In 10 Businesses Unable To Support An Employee With A Disability Or Health Condition
10 August 2016 | News
... an employee with a disability or living with a long term health condition. Read the report below . Employment ... people make a valuable contribution to the workplace , however more than one in ten (12%) worry that disabled ... that disabled people will claim discrimination if the job does not work out. The report warns that the Government’s ...
Election campaigners ‘living in parallel universe’ by not acknowledging a quarter of the UK population says Disability Rights UK
03 June 2024 | News
... are talking about disabled people. “They must talk about how they intend to change things for us so that we go from ... the most basic bills. It is inconceivable to anyone who doesn’t swallow the rhetoric and conjecture and actually ... poverty, cut essential public services and worsened our mental and physical health. “Widening poverty, high energy ...
What does good work mean for you?
10 May 2017 | News
Matthew Taylor is asking what does good work mean for you? Matthew is CEO of the RSA ... for you. You can also post comments on the RSA website Disability Rights UK encourages our members to aid this ... review by saying what good work is for people living with health conditions or disability. What does good work mean ...
The Government has a problem with young people
27 March 2025 | News
... most notably, the proposal to reintroduce national service. However, nearly a year later, and with a new Government in ... It's also worth noting that, pre any cuts, PIP already doesn’t cover the full additional costs that come from ... told the BBC that there was an “overdiagnosis” of mental health impairments, which wrote people off for work. ...
Government continues Household Support Fund (HSF)
03 September 2024 | News
... councils to support low-income families in their area. How the money is allocated and who is eligible, varies from ... Ireland. The £421m extension package will provide a much-needed discretionary funding pot to struggling Local ... households.” “Whilst the HSF extension is welcome, it does not undo the damage being caused to millions of ...
Locked Down and Abandoned: Disabled People’s Experiences of Covid-19: new Inclusion London research report
11 February 2021 | News
... first, second and third lockdowns. The report describes how Disabled people continue to experience hardship across all areas of life: increasing mental distress, social isolation and loneliness, food ... difficulties, workplace discrimination, problems accessing healthcare, and unequal access to medicine, vaccines, and ...
Commission Launches Major Report on Health and Social Care Reform
13 September 2023 | News
... for Public Policy Research's new report entitled For Public Health and Public Finances: Reforming Health and Social ... report goes into the ways we need a systemic overhaul in how health and social care function, and Disability Rights UK were involved as part of the team of ...
MP demands better into work support for disabled people
28 October 2013 | News
... for individualised support with employment for people with mental health problems and less coercion. In this Guardian ... sometimes people need a push to get back into work, she does not believe that this should be coercive or punitive. ... approach, Individual Placement and Support, which has been shown to work well for people with long-term and severe ...
Targeted Ten-Year Plan Needed For National Disability Strategy
06 December 2023 | News
... departmental actions with minimal strategic thinking behind how those actions interact”, the Committee said. The ... and poliices affecting them. “Ministers need to work much more proactively with Disabled groups and develop the ... actions in the NDS. The Committee said the Government does not include reference to its obligations under the ...
Contracted out health and disability assessments inquiry
17 January 2016 | News
... Public Accounts Committee holds a session on contracted out health and disability assessments on Wednesday 3 February 2016 at ... As the contracts covered are at different stages we examine how the Department has changed its approach to setting-up ...