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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 ...
New Universal Personalised Care Model launched
30 January 2019 | News
... and local government, and organisations from across health, care, voluntary and community-based sectors, as well ... by 2024, giving them the same choice and control over their mental and physical health that they have come to expect in ... care: Implementing the Comprehensive Model confirms how we will do this by 2023/24. It is the action plan for ...
DWP to decide PIP claims using unlawful and discriminatory rules until summer 2018
19 April 2018 | News
... McVey has now confirmed that the DWP will not appeal Disability Rights UK, who supported this case, welcomed the ... U-turn as it affects an estimated 164,000 claimants with mental health conditions. Esther McVey has now announced that both ...
DR UK concerns over any funding settlement for health and social care
10 January 2017 | News
Independent living central to health and social care future. The future of our health and social care system is in the news today. Much of the focus of discussion has been about issues such ... all ages to be part of our communities as equal citizens. Disability Rights UK are also a signatory to a letter that ...
DR UK welcomes initiatives regarding disabled apprentices
12 January 2017 | News
... helpful changes to make apprenticeships more inclusive. Disability organisations like our own have proposed ways to ... employers taking on a disabled person with an education and healthcare plan aged 19 to 24 years of age. This incentive ... . This gave the language the same status as English. We are much encouraged by these moves and look to disabled ...
Strategic partner updates for February 2014
03 February 2014 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic ... UK’s events and workplan (lead on commissioning), and on how this will support local user-led organisations and ... in Southampton (Solent NHS Trust for both community and mental health: 27 February), Dudley (NHS Acute Trust: 28 ...
Official data flags impact of inflation on Disabled people
03 November 2022 | News
... half of Disabled adults (55 per cent) are struggling to pay their energy bills and around a third (36 per cent) are ... impacted by the cost of living crisis. Government doesn't need any more evidence of the problem, it now needs ... crisis, with additional income to meet the extra costs of disability." Some 72 per cent of people with prepayment ...
We respond to Govt disability employment strategy
16 December 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK urges Government to invest in the ... to enable disabled people to get employment support much more quickly than now. “At present people who are out ... the point they need it, as in Australia, is also welcome. However much depends on what is on offer after the gateway. ...
Over 1.5 million people were destitute in the UK in 2017
06 June 2018 | News
... in the UK 2018 report says serious physical health and mental health problems were reported by almost half of all ... A survey of people using Trussell Trust food banks showed that disabled people are at a highly disproportionate ... they received a lower rate of benefit, and also faced a much higher degree of conditionality, with an associated ...
Law change needed to tackle disability pay gap
04 November 2019 | News
... companies with over 50 people to have to take action on the disability pay gap. Analysis by the TUC shows that one in two disabled people of working age who ...