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Chancellor Announces Back To Work Plan for Disabled People Backed By Tougher Sanctions
17 November 2023 | News
... to Work Plan to help Disabled people, those with long-term health conditions, or “long-term unemployment” to look ... for people to get specialised work and health support.” However, stricter benefit sanctions will also be enforced by ... provides but is becoming relentless and in an era of rising disability hate crime, unhelpful. For Disabled and ...
DWP admits wrongly refusing PIP to record number of Disabled people
24 February 2022 | News
... the past year, reports The Independent . Separate figures show the cost of these reviews has surged by 26% in the last ... of the reconsideration and tribunal systems on their mental health.” Over half (56%) of claims which were taken to ...
UK Government Retrogressive Measures Impact Negatively on Disabled People
22 August 2017 | News
... of the EU withdrawal Bill has raised further concern as much of the provisions of the CRPD are enacted in the UK ... said in our own submission. We are not just talking about how benefit changes but right across the spectrum of health, social care, employment and education retrogressive ...
Stephen Crabb’s speech at the Early Intervention Foundation Conference
12 April 2016 | News
... View speech Key points “We’re going to be investing in mental health services to tackle some of the debilitating disorders ... welfare system, the health service will all need to work much better together….to help people stay healthy in the ...
Strategic partner updates October 2015
05 October 2015 | News
... commissioning. For any comments and/or ideas about how to strengthen ‘disabled people leading change’, ... impact on professionals and on what they are doing? How does this happen? Maybe your DPULO is already involved with ... by Tuesday 6 October. Gearing up for one of the most fundamental changes in NHS history Sir Bruce Keogh has outlined ...
Unlawful detention of disabled people condemned
12 March 2014 | News
... concludes that legislation created to protect people with mental health conditions - including dementia and autism - has ... if they want to keep someone under constant observation. However human rights group Liberty told the inquiry that ...
Family of Jodey Whiting seeks fresh inquest into her death to examine role played by DWP
07 January 2020 | News
... 2017. She was a vulnerable woman with multiple physical and mental health illnesses which left her house-bound, requiring 23 ... have been entitled to publicly funded legal representation. However, a subsequent inquiry by the Independent Case ...
MPs say housing cost reform hurts disabled people
01 April 2014 | News
... or who need an extra room as a result of their disability, and who are unlikely to be able to move house or ... other areas someone in the same circumstances has to pay as much as 20% of their Council Tax. The Government should ... private and social sector landlords are concerned about how tenants will manage direct payments of housing costs ...
90% of Low-Income Families on Universal Credit Going Without Essentials
05 July 2024 | News
... (60%) reported going without essentials like food, showers, heating and toiletries in the 6 months to May 2024, ... by the additional costs associated with disability and ill-health, and partly by the barriers to work Disabled people ... part in the range of social and cultural activities that much of society takes for granted.” For more information, ...
Open Letter To Liz Kendall: Don’t Continue With WCA Cuts
28 October 2024 | News
... do nothing to address current labour shortages. They will however increase levels of entrenched deprivation. Poverty ... risk” group. These are not people with “mild” mental health conditions, as portrayed in sections of the media. ...