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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 ...
New guide to Adult Disability Payment in Scotland launched
14 August 2023 | News
Adult disability payment (ADP) is a benefit for people in Scotland between ... to claim than PIP? Data published on 31 January 2023 show that 60% of ADP claims result in awards (30% of claims ... of time. To this end, we have written a guide Adult Disability Payment: a Guide to the Benefit , which you can ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Funding Higher Education for Disabled Students
06 March 2025 | Resource
... degrees. Contents Where do I apply for funding? How is my income assessed? Your household income - parents ... support you’re entitled to, you need to tell them how much you want to borrow. The amount of loan you can borrow ... the maximum tuition fee is £4,860 (2024/25). This fee doesn’t need to be paid up front. Universities in Northern ...
Key health and care bodies say keeping and extending the £20 week UC lifeline is crucial
08 February 2021 | News
Key bodies working across health and care have written an open letter to the Prime ... Royal Society of Public Health The Association of Mental Health Providers The Mental Health Network of the NHS Confederation These leading ...
Family of Errol Graham launch legal action against the DWP
04 March 2020 | News
... then made to terminate Errol’s benefits as he had not shown he had “good cause” to miss the appointment. Despite his long history of severe mental health issues, no information was ever obtained about ... not open to public scrutiny. Significantly, the DWP still does not track or monitor the status of the recommendations ...