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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
I Can Make It welcomes Anna Denham
03 November 2016 | News
Anna Denham has recently joined the I Can Make It team at Disability Rights UK, having previously supported the ... on Social Value to be very good. Her presentation showed that that the Yorkshire Purchasing Office is highly ... article and if you are 18-29, have a disability or health condition and want to join him in helping to improve ...
High success rate in ESA sanction challenges
11 August 2015 | News
New DWP statistics show that almost 67,000 sanctions applied to employment and ... sanctions. For people on ESA, all of whom are living with health conditions or disabilities, the figures tell a ... Key findings In respect of ESA claimants, the statistics show that in the period from 3 December 2012 - when the new ...