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Met Police officer fired after assaulting black child with learning disabilities
05 May 2021 | News
A 17 year-old who was an inpatient at a mental health unit was repeatedly struck by a Metropolitan (Met) ... girl also flagged down a police car, and body-cam footage shows her telling its occupants she had mental health ...
Strategic partner updates for May 2013
21 May 2013 | News
... Health England. We have used this opportunity to reconsider how we can promote investment in and use of the lived ... is necessary. However, with the case studies very much reduced in substance (and shifted to Annex E) an ... Disability Rights UK members and our networks of the fundamental changes following the Health and Social Care Act 2012 ...
DR UK warns Severe Disability Premium claimants to ‘seek robust advice’, as UC changes take effect
26 January 2021 | News
... a two-year moratorium on moving people who claim Severe Disability Premiums (SDPs) to Universal Credit (UC) has come ... Credit system instead of being ringfenced. “Not knowing how much money people will have causes increased stress and ...
Covid Inquiry will consider impact of pandemic on Disabled people
17 July 2022 | News
... race. The organisations remain concerned that the Inquiry doesn’t intend to examine the Government’s current ... not I qualified as ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’, how to access a supply of PPE, how to remain supported by my personal healthcare team if I needed to go to hospital, and whether ...
FutureFit: how tech can get everyone moving more
07 June 2018 | News
... Policymakers Researchers Anyone with an interest in sport, health, innovation or tech 1.5 million of us don’t manage ... explore the reasons why some people aren’t exercising and how the worlds of fitness, sport, innovation and technology ... sporting history was made in 2012. FutureFit: how tech can get everyone moving more ...
We condemn taxi firm disability policy
14 January 2014 | News
... of Russia Sue Bott, Director of Policy and Development at Disability Rights UK, said: "Disabled people shouldn't be ... but for goodness' sake, it all works out in the end, doesn't it? I really can't understand why they see a problem ... doesn't fit into a 'normal' taxi. Why should they have to pay extra for being disabled? You have to wonder where this ...
English Blue Badge scheme to include those with hidden disabilities
29 July 2018 | News
People with hidden disabilities, including autism and mental health conditions are to be given the right to a Blue Badge. ... for more detailed information you can order a copy of the Disability Rights Handbook from our shop English Blue Badge ...
Commissioning advocacy under the Care Act
29 October 2014 | News
... being involved in the care and support process, and does not have an appropriate individual to support them. The ... for existing advocacy services – including independent mental capacity advocacy and independent mental health advocacy – and consider what additional resources ...
Hancock “100%” in favour of withdrawing funding for learning disability hub to secure lockdown vote
07 March 2023 | News
Messages leaked by Isabel Oakeshott from the former Health Secretary Matt Hancock have revealed that he ... hard to come by in a timely fashion. “These texts show a shocking level of disregard by those at the very top ... think it is appalling. The fact that they would only give a much needed support for disabled people if I voted for this ...
MPs want older people to pay to fund personal care for all
26 June 2018 | News
The Housing, Communities and Local Government and Health and Social Care Committees' joint report calls for a ... transfers between generations - Resolution Foundation How to fix the funding of health and social care - Institute ... Z (born mid-90s/early 2000s) MPs want older people to pay to fund personal care for all ...