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Disability Rights UK’s Together Fund – Our Impact!
08 December 2023 | News
... delivery and impact of Sport England’s Together Fund, showing the vast and long-lasting impact this fund has on ... , as well as improving their self-confidence and overall mental health. Projects reported increased capacity and ... beyond the life of the fund because there is still so much to be learnt from each other.” Disability Rights ...
Peers ask Health Secretary to restore Care Act rights
21 September 2020 | News
... Grey-Thompson have led a group of 30 peers in writing to Health Secretary Matt Hancock calling for the restoration of ... comply with Care Act duties without putting lives at risks. However, there is evidence that ‘easements’ were ... – emotionally, socially, economically or in terms of mental and physical health – but we believe these effects ...
Honouring Black History Month
26 October 2023 | News
This Black History Month, at DR UK we know how intersectional our struggles are – there is no ... riots of 1958. Throughout her life, she dealt with poor health as a result of growing up in poverty. Brad Lomax ... rights and disability rights movement. He was also instrumental in setting up the East Oakland Centre for Independent ...
Peers letter to Health Minister on Care Act Easements
08 September 2020 | News
... The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP Secretary of State Department of Health and Social Care 39 Victoria Street London SW1H 0EU ... comply with Care Act duties without putting lives at risks. However, there is evidence that ‘easements’ were ... – emotionally, socially, economically or in terms of mental and physical health – but we believe these effects ...
Strategic partner updates for October 2014
06 October 2014 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic ... people leading change’ (lead on commissioning ), and on how this will support local user-led organisations and ... year for a CCG during which children and young people with mental health problems are driving a procurement exercise ...
Benefits levels leave many unable to afford daily essentials or meet extra costs of disability, say MPs
21 March 2024 | News
... daily living costs and extra costs associated with having a health condition or disability. For example, a wide range of ... benefits were found to have a negative physical and mental health impact on claimants, which in turn could ... costs it intends PIP to cover. It should then set out how it intends to reach this benchmark alongside annual ...
We welcome Scotlands decision to ban private firms from doing disability benefit assessments
02 October 2017 | News
... Butler, DR UK’s Welfare Rights Adviser said: “We very much welcome all of Scotland’s disability benefit reforms. It shows that it has listened to the criticisms that disable ... to make better use of existing information within the health and social care sector and other public bodies.” In ...
PIP assessments first independent review: second government response
25 November 2015 | News
... primarily on the short–term recommendations and set out how the Department would respond to them, complementing work ... to the effectiveness of the assessment for people with a mental health condition or learning disability. The responses to ...
Bereaved relatives call on DWP Secretary of State to launch public inquiry into benefits deaths
19 July 2021 | News
... ours are not part of a wider problem. But your own figures show that the DWP has internally investigated 97 deaths since ... it take to overhaul the way that the system works, when so much harm has been done over so many years? It is hard to ... the benefits system.” The letter has been sent as Rethink Mental Illness publishes a significant new report -Tip of ...
Disabled Facilities Grants
23 April 2025 | Resource
... get DFGs? What can you get a DFG for? Applying for a DFG How much is a DFG? What if the grant isn't enough? Can I be ... hearing or speech is substantially impaired; you have a mental disorder or impairment of any kind; or you are ...