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Jenna's Benefits Cuts story - 'Cuts will hurt, but we can fight'
02 April 2025 | News
... University Student and founder of Universities Against Disability Cuts UK, discusses how the proposed Benefits Cuts will have a devastating ... do affectionately call ’Rusty’), I could suddenly do so much more! No more skipped lectures because public transport ...
Government publishes strategy to improve women’s health
26 July 2022 | News
The Government's Women's Health Strategy published last week commits to addressing ... age, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, or where she is from does not impact upon her ability to access services, or the ... screening services and for encouraging more research into how new approaches to improving cancer care for the whole ...
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 ...
Local authority social care responsibilities under the spotlight
09 June 2016 | News
... Committee that has been taking evidence and considering how well local councils are dealing with personal budgets. ... most out of personalising care; The Department of Health does not believe that everyone who councils say are getting ... good care and proportionate support looks like, and how much it costs. Sue Bott, Deputy CEO Disability Rights UK ...
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, ...
Evaluation: How Do We Bring People In?
20 August 2024 | News
... It's not something many roles usually have to have too much involvement in, especially in the development stages. ... insights from Disabled people and representatives were fundamental in shaping the final product. Their contributions ... to providing more nuanced insights that will influence how the evaluation data is interpreted. For instance, ...
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 ...
Our latest benefit appeal summaries
20 March 2019 | News
... financial help they need because of their disability at a much earlier point.” For more information see Appeal Court ... benefits made by her department.” It is difficult to see how a disadvantage which is arbitrary can be justified. ... a fixed term award to be inappropriate. The section does not set out the legal consequences of a decision that a ...
Tackling social exclusion and disability harassment
27 May 2013 | News
... since it is more difficult for victims to escape. However, he assured that the government is taking necessary ... not share the Minister’s enthusiasm for the bill as it does not reflect the government rhetoric that there was ... grammar school, studying for my GCSEs. This put me in a much stronger position to petition for my continued ...
UC denies most disabled people opportunity to enter full time HE
06 July 2017 | News
... and attend colleges and universities away from their home. However, this ability is denied to them under Universal Credit as it does not automatically treat them as having a “limited ... you are pregnant and there would be a serious risk to the health of you or your child if you did not refrain from ...