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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 ...
Concerns over disabled peoples access to DHPs
14 July 2014 | News
... authorities have struggled to make long-term plans for how discretionary housing payments (DHPs) would be used when ... disabilities fail to apply for DHPs, especially those with mental health difficulties. more than half (56 per cent) of those ...
Government must halt ‘managed migration’ to universal credit, charities UK wide demand
05 May 2022 | News
... 2.6 million claimants, including 700,000 people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and dementia ... people through a system that its own research has shown to be difficult to navigate. DWP research with people ...
How could employers and services better support disabled people through sickness absence?
13 February 2018 | News
... has helped you during sickness absence? Is Statutory Sick Pay working for disabled people? How do you think it could be improved? How could employers better support staff who have ...
The Activity Trap: Disabled people’s fear of being active
08 October 2018 | News
... disabled people to be active in all aspects of their lives. However evidence suggests that disabled people fear losing ... active. Being active and reaping the benefits from activity does not happen in isolation. We cannot continue to assume ... this report helps to widen the discussion beyond sport and health. Whilst some actions are long-term and will not ...
DR UK questions the need for the new Health and Work Conversation to be mandatory
16 July 2017 | News
DWP FOI responses give fuller picture of mandatory Health and Work Conversation. Following Freedom of ... support over 4 years “for people who due to an illness or disability are unable to work at the moment, but may be able ... Importantly, one FOI response has confirmed that the DWP does not have the statutory power that requires a claimant ...
Disabled people's poverty worse than govt estimates
17 September 2018 | News
New report reveals that people with a disability are much more likely to be living in poverty than ... to looking at poverty in the UK. The report looks at how much people have to spend and the unavoidable costs that ...
The Disability Rights Handbook: A Brief History
18 January 2024 | News
... difficult to get any information from the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS). Leaflets promoting ... in nature, including one on sex and disability. The focus, however, was on the state benefits available to Disabled ... is very different from that of Sally Robertson. There is so much more case-law now, but it is available at the touch of ...
Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are under-resourced to the point of refusing patients
07 April 2022 | News
... support by the under-funded CAMHS service. Stem4, a youth mental health charity, surveyed over 1,000 General Practitioners (GPs) across the UK. The survey shows that while CAMHS was struggling before the pandemic, ...
Personal Health Budgets scheme attracts just one in twenty target patients
21 April 2016 | News
Figures sourced under the Freedom of Information Act show that across 162 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England, just 2,986 out of 53,611 Continuing Healthcare patients had opted to receive PHBs. For more see ... CCGs just can’t move away from ‘doctor knows best’ mentality.” Personal Health Budgets scheme attracts just ...