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DR UK opposes "dangerous" RSHE draft guidance
17 July 2024 | News
... or in a healthcare setting. All children must be taught how to talk about being made to do things they didn’t want ... rights are devalued. LGBTQ+ inclusive RSHE education does not endanger children, transphobia does. 5. This ... for Disabled children and young people in school is so much more than just EHCPs and reasonable adjustments. Every ...
DR UK: Spending Review fails disabled people
26 November 2020 | News
... for 2021. Anti-poverty campaigners and those fighting for much needed investment in social care have been left amazed ... square an impossible circle and this ungenerous settlement does very little to help the NHS either. However, it’s older and disabled people, and their ...
DR UK response to news of 'extortionate' benefit assessors payouts
13 April 2017 | News
... on PIP which we believe will make it harder for people with mental health conditions to get Personal Independence Payment at ... needs to be improved. For instance, the process should be much more transparent, as Paul Gray proposes, with a record ...
Payment cards must support not restrict choice and control for users of direct payments
12 October 2017 | News
... about payment card practice and makes recommendations on how councils can properly comply with Care Act guidance. ... been used to the last penny; when it comes to knowing how much a pre-payment card service costs some of them are ... access to direct payments breach this principle, as does not allowing choice over use of the cards. Productive ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group statement on Modernising Support for Independent Living: The Health and Disability Green Paper.
30 April 2024 | News
... entitled Modernising Support for Independent Living: The Health and Disability Green Paper. The paper outlines the ... negative budgets, long waiting times for the medical and mental health support needed to return to employment and ... Duty. The PSED requires our government to take into account how their policies will affect people with the protected ...
Brexit: Should disabled people care?
04 October 2018 | News
... leave or remain, and I suspect disabled people were pretty much reflective of the population as a whole, Brexit does have implication for our rights and for that reason we ... rights as a disabled person. The latest issue focuses on how to win your PIP appeals. Claim your FREE copy of UNITE ...
Disability progress ‘littered with missed opportunities and failures’
02 April 2017 | News
... less equal , the most comprehensive analysis ever on how the rights of disabled people are protected in Great ... of disabled pupils in England, Wales and Scotland is still much lower. In England, the proportion of children with ... the case across all impairment types, and for those with ‘mental health conditions’ and those with ‘physical ...
Liberal Democrats make Care and Disabled peoples rights central to their manifesto
10 June 2024 | News
... released their election manifesto, which contained much on the issues of care, health and disability. Speaking live from London, Ed Davey, ... On education, there were several policies relevant to mental health and SEND: Put a qualified mental health ...
New CQC Report Into the State of Health and Social Care in England
24 October 2023 | News
This year has been another turbulent one for health and social care. In addition to the ongoing problem ... lists in June 2023. But the true number of people could be much higher, as some people who need treatment are ... across the country are being failed by a system that simply does not care. Care is not something we should baulk at; ...
New Z2K Report Security Not Sanctions: Making Universal Credit Work For Seriously Ill And Disabled People
22 May 2024 | News
... with disabled claimants, calling for a major overhaul of how universal credit works with health and disability. The report highlights that ... rent, and while they would remain in poverty, this would be much less deep poverty than the current system forces them ...