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Disability Rights UK fights for employment rights
13 May 2013 | News
... to small businesses to employ disabled people, and much hated. In 2013 Government withdrew the standard list ... nothing as powerful as hearing from other disabled people how they have managed technology or support, how they have ... of getting a new job – fear of losing benefit if the work doesn’t work out, fear of poverty. As John Lennon put it ...
NHS Trusts less likely to review deaths of patients with a mental health or learning disability
12 December 2016 | News
... report NHS England's commissioned review looked at all mental health and learning disability deaths at Southern Health NHS ... recommendations include: Learning from deaths needs much greater priority within the NHS to avoid missing ...
Resolution Foundation release new report on Winter Fuel Payments
03 October 2024 | News
... to be channelled to poorer benefit-receiving families but does little to help those who have lost the Winter Fuel ... wealthy and therefore should be eligible to receive it. However, others including Disability Rights UK point out ... or even qualify for Pension Credit – are set to lose much-needed support this winter, noting the possible ...
New Year's Message 2022
05 January 2022 | News
... on care costs, which benefits older wealthy home owners, doesn’t come into effect until October 2023. This month, ... yet to undertake an audit of their schools to understand how and why so many are still physically inaccessible to ... care, Local Authorities have wholly inadequate budgets. A much awaited Green Paper on Special Educational Needs and ...
400,000 people to be pushed into poverty by health and disability benefit cuts
27 March 2025 | News
... based on the PIP daily living component assessment. However, the Chancellor yesterday announced one major policy ... group because of the ‘substantial risk to physical or mental health if not found to have a limited capability for ... baseline, so making the poverty impact figures seem much lower than they really are. 150,000 people that would ...
DWP sanctions and conditionality succeed in not helping disabled people into work and harm their mental health
18 October 2018 | News
... the University of Essex for DR UK member Inclusion London, shows benefit sanctions and conditions are pushing disabled ... team found all participants experienced significantly detrimental effects on their mental health. The impact of sanctions was life threatening for ...
Council to pay £7000 compensation for inadequate assessment
20 January 2016 | News
... avoidable distress, and meant she has not had as much care as she should have had. Read Community Care ... expenditure and provide a clear explanation of why it does not consider some costs arise from the disability; pay ... decisions Factsheet F41 - personalisation – personal health budgets Factsheet F48 - assessment, eligibility and ...
CQC Sexual safety on mental health wards
10 September 2018 | News
... to improve the sexual safety of people and staff on mental health wards. Read report The report shares CQC findings and ... always feel that they are kept safe. The ward environment does not always promote the sexual safety of people using ...
DWP’s PIP assessment “torture” helped cause my son’s suicide, says disabled Mum
05 July 2021 | News
... infected ulcers on his arms, chest and back. With his mental health continuing to deteriorate, he agreed to be ... old. His disabled mother Helen wrote to the DWP saying: “How many more lives have to end before this government stops ... treating people as human beings so that this kind of thing doesn’t happen to other families in the future.” Source ...
High Court: council tax reduction scheme does not discriminate on disability grounds
11 November 2015 | News
... and support allowance and disability living allowance. His health conditions were unlikely to improve for him to be ... proceedings challenging Havering’s 2015/2016 scheme. However, the High Court rejects that the scheme ... to Havering’s discretionary scheme, the High Court does say that - “… where a severely disabled claimant ...