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Progress on socio-economic rights in Great Britain
06 March 2018 | News
... strategy ‘Improving Lives – The Future of Work, Health and Disability’ to facilitate access to employment ... Equality Plan and Equality Objectives 2016–2020. “However, the overall picture emerging from the most recent ... system changes to PIP regulations affect people with mental health conditions the need for Work Capability ...
Disability Benefits Consortium launch PIP Pledge report and MP e-action
03 April 2013 | News
... benefit will be rolled-out and, eventually, it will replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA). We know that the way in ... Capability Assessment and, although the Government is very much to blame for this, we know that the way in which Atos ... make the most of this situation and use the differences in how these companies deliver the assessment to drive up the ...
Access to Work
07 October 2022 | Resource
... help is available? Help available for people with long-term mental health conditions Support for Apprentices What help is available? How to access the supporting apprentices scheme Amount of ... There is no set amount for an Access to Work grant. How much you get depends on your specific case. The grant will ...
DWP seeking Chair of Health and Safety Executive
30 April 2020 | News
Chair of the Health and Safety Executive The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a Crown Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Department for Work and ... HSE continues to drive efficiencies in all that it does and is also seeking to grow its commercial income. ...
DWP Announces Major WCA Changes for New ESA and UC Claimants from 2025
24 November 2023 | News
... “We will specify the circumstances, and physical and mental health conditions, for which LCWRA Substantial Risk ... limitations under the getting about LCW activity. However, the DWP will not make changes to the following WCA ... Group within ESA. “Whilst we recognise that the DWP does not intend to take forward all of the most extreme ...
You know why - it’s now time to think about how
03 August 2015 | News
... Get Yourself Active friends. You can also hear about why health, social care and sports should work together for ... Please get in contact if you have examples or knowledge of how personal budgets have been used for physical activity or sport by emailing leanne.wightman@disabilityrightsuk.org or tweeting @GetYrselfActive using ...
DBC and DPAC urge six week extension to Green Paper consultation response time
09 August 2021 | News
... about the consultation period for the recently published Health and Disability Green Paper. The Green Paper was ... is the standard time frame. By definition, this time frame does not make reasonable adjustments that disabled people ... upcoming Health and Disability Green Paper. The research showed that: 88 per cent of people are either “not at all ...
Disability pay gap increases to highest level since 2013
24 May 2018 | News
... £1.50 an hour less on average than non-disabled workers Disability pay gap has increased to a 4-year high of 15% A new TUC ... And employers should talk to their disabled workers about how to make work more accessible. “Disabled people can get ...
Ombudsman finds council wrong for automatically reducing disability-related expenses where a cheaper option was available
16 June 2021 | News
... Care Ombudsman has found Essex County Council at fault in how it considered two separate women’s Disability Related Expenses (DREs). The women both have ... incurs directly related to a disability when assessing how much they should contribute towards their care. The ...
Universal Credit linked to suicide risk finds new research
15 November 2018 | News
Universal Credit has become a serious threat to public health, with the stress of coping with the new benefit affecting mental health and leading some to consider suicide, ... serious consequences for their health and wellbeing. It shows that people moving onto Universal Credit, especially ...