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Incapacity and disability benefit claimants feel particularly hard hit during coronavirus outbreak, MPs find
26 April 2020 | News
... found they are unable to claim any benefits. The survey shows that incapacity and disability benefit claimants feel ... how we have been left, disgraceful.” Individuals with mental health conditions described how social distancing measures ...
Strategic partner updates for January 2014
14 January 2014 | News
... on Disability Rights UK’s events and workplan, and on how this will support local user-led organisations and ... on work in Southampton (Solent NHS Trust for both acute and mental health: end February), Dudley (NHS Acute Trust: 28 ... and to do so transparently so that poor patient experience does not go undetected and excellence can be celebrated. For ...
People with longstanding mental health problems more than twice as likely to be in poverty
20 June 2018 | News
Poor health, living standards and poverty 2018 : Institute for ... with a longstanding health problem, and 40% of those with a mental health problem, are in relative poverty (i.e. they ... of which 18% (1.3 million) reported having a longstanding mental health problem. The number with a longstanding mental ...
MPs say thousands of ESA claimants failed by DWP 'culture of indifference'
17 July 2018 | News
... to the report, Ken Butler, welfare rights adviser with Disability Rights UK, said: “This tawdry fiasco has seen ... Payment to Universal Credit, the litany of chaos doesn’t seem to register with the Department at all.” ... the harm caused by this mistake and, more broadly, to give much greater priority to correcting benefit underpayments to ...
Government to extend personal health budgets to 200,000 by 2024
24 February 2019 | News
... users and people who access aftercare services under the Mental Health Act will soon have a right to a personal health ... to obtain a wheelchair from the NHS. “We all know how variable wheelchair services have been in the past and ...
Suspension of the Care Act - act immediately
21 March 2020 | News
... address] I mplications of the Bill for Disabled people What does it mean for disabled adults? The Bill suspends every ... a lesser entitlement for up to two years. What about the Mental Health Act? The power to recommend individuals be ... from 24 hours to 36 hours. Under section 35/36, the cap on how long someone can be held in hospital while awaiting a ...
£400,000 for 10 new research projects led by disabled people announced
29 November 2016 | News
... have received between £35,000 and £40,000 each to explore how disabled people can live as full citizens in our society ... people living with dementia, learning disabilities and mental health issues. Grants were approved by the DRILL ... Coproducing Solutions £40,000 People First Scotland Does it Matter? Decision making by people with learning ...
Strategic partner updates for March 2014
04 March 2014 | News
... UK’s events and workplan (lead on commissioning), and on how this will support local user-led organisations and ... we also think that prevention (behavioural) approaches have much to pick up from disabled people’s lived experience ... with this fund around spring time. Better care for mental health crisis A new agreement between police and the ...
01 Strategic partner updates January 2015
19 January 2015 | News
... Disability Rights UK). For any comments and/or ideas about how to strengthen ‘disabled people leading change’, ... (add-on?) homecare service, a procurement exercise in mental health during which children and young people and ... test for dementia, which is a form of questionnaire, does not accurately identify those people who have dementia ...
Cost of living situation for UC households ‘almost universally dire’ says Joseph Rowntree Federation
23 June 2023 | News
... normal” with claimants making impossible choices about how often they eat and which foods they buy, according to ... need for an Essentials Guarantee to protect the nation’s health. As a result, the JRF says, the situation has been ... local market rents. Ensure that the Renters Reform Bill does not allow landlords to raise rents within tenancies to ...