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Increase in Disabled people’s use of food banks
02 November 2023 | News
... new report entitled: ‘ Disability and financial hardship: How disability benefits contribute to the need for food ... bank in their network are out of work, saying that their health condition or caring responsibilities mean that they ... drives poor Disabled people into financial hardship and mental distress, removing people’s capacity to thrive and ...
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill will take our rights backwards
04 September 2018 | News
Today (Wednesday 5 th September) the committee stage of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill begins in the House of ... of people with conditions such as dementia, learning disability and brain injury. Commenting on the Bill Sue Bott ... out-of-date language such as ‘unsoundness of mind’ Too much power is being given to care home managers to decide ...
Roy Curtis: Autistic man killed himself six days after latest ‘fitness for work’ demand
07 December 2020 | News
... – who was autistic and had significant experience of mental distress – was only discovered when a bailiff ... 2018. The inquest heard repeated evidence over two days of how several agencies had failed Mr. Curtis in the weeks and ... is to adopt safeguarding measures on the basis that it does have such a legal duty.” For more information on the ...
Tell us how your experience in the workplace is affected by workplace design
17 April 2018 | News
... try to understand people's experiences in the workplace and how this is impacted by workplace design. Drawing on their personal and professional experience of disability and ageing, they want to understand what more ... is your workplace? They would therefore very much appreciate if you could please take a moment to ...
We want to know how Brexit will affect your organisation
05 November 2016 | News
... and other sources of EU law. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR) would not apply, and the EU Court of ... recognised that withdrawing from the EU and the Charter does not have to mean withdrawing from the European ... We would like to explore this aspect. We want to know how Brexit will affect your organisation ...
Government must end “crippling uncertainty” over £20 per week uplift to UC and legacy benefits, say coalition of 60 organisations
30 November 2020 | News
... leaders. New analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that 6.2 million families will feel a £1,040 a year ... on the £20 uplift this week suggests that the Government does not intend to extend this lifeline to legacy benefits ... pandemic. Sick and disabled people and carers already faced much higher risks of poverty, a situation which has only ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group statement on Winter Fuel Payment changes
18 September 2024 | News
The upcoming changes to the Winter Fuel Payment scheme fundamentally alter its identity, shifting it ... a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. The Disability Poverty Campaign Group is extremely concerned ...
Charging for support: a tax on disability and old age
30 April 2018 | News
... Independent Living Strategy Group - an informal grouping of disability organisations and activists, chaired by Baroness ... request for examples of where people had tried to challenge how their local authority was implementing the Care Act. ... against their direct payment). This is a long-standing and much contentious issue. We are talking here, not about ...
Return of 14 year old exams despite rise in school refusal and mental health issues for teens
05 October 2021 | News
... of stress in many schools. These children often experience mental health conditions including high anxiety. “Children are ... of 14 year old exams despite rise in school refusal and mental health issues for teens ...
Government announces plans for a National Disability Strategy
19 December 2019 | News
... will be considered in a Green Paper and will consider how we can ensure the benefits system and wider DWP support can best help disabled people. The consultation “health is everyone’s business” will set out measures to ... law as well as legislating so that patients suffering from mental health conditions, including anxiety or depression, ...