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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Conservative party manifesto fails to address disability inequality
12 June 2024 | News
... Manifesto. Unlike the Liberal Democrat manifesto launch however, there was no BSL interpreter present to relay ... cuts and working families, with a scattering of actions on health and disability; These included: An Increase in NHS ... provide better treatment and support for those with severe mental health needs in the first session of the next ...
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 ...
The transition from being a Disabled child to becoming a Disabled adult by Emily Nicole Roberts
17 November 2023 | News
... peak. After all, disabled people didn ’ t usually achieve much at school did they? “ People like me” didn ’ t ... do, not what you can ’ t. Achieving things differently doesn ’ t diminish the achievement itself does it? You ... ITV National Diversity Awards and runs a YouTube channel, How Emily , to destigmatise disability. Originally posted ...
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 ...
People with mental health problems more at risk of losing benefits, says new study
21 January 2019 | News
Disabled people with mental health problems such as attention deficit hyperactivity ... stopped than those with physical ailments, a new study shows. Those who have a psychiatric condition are 2.4 times ...
DR UK Urges You To Oppose the Government’s Dangerous Cost-Cutting WCA reforms
19 October 2023 | News
... to the work capability assessment (WCA) changes and how you can voice your opposition by: • writing to your MP ... who receives any rate of PIP will receive an extra “health element” , included in their UC. But no-one will ... With Social Engagement - due to a cognitive impairment or mental disorder Getting About - getting to places outside ...