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Health and Disability Green Paper published: Shaping Future Support
20 July 2021 | News
The DWP has published its long promised Health and Disability Green Paper titled Shaping Future Support. The ... for Disabled people and people with health conditions, and how to encourage people to take up that support, where ...
Strategic partner updates for November 2014
10 November 2014 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic ... people leading change’ (lead on commissioning ), and on how this will support local user-led organisations and ... have continued to co-facilitate a procurement exercise for mental health services for 0-25 year olds with a CCG by ...
DR UK and our members respond to Commons defeat of Lords amendments
23 February 2016 | News
... which will have a damaging impact on their physical and mental health. Disability Rights UK members and supporters and ... of people with a learning disability are in employment; however the Government are still yet to provide any robust ...
Learning disability and debt
12 April 2018 | News
In this guest blog post, Jason Jaspal from Disability Rights UK discusses the challenges that people ... may find it hard to get advice because they don’t know how or where to look for help. They may have difficulties ... disabled customers, they are at risk of legal action. The Mental Capacity Act (2005) Advisers also need to be aware of ...
Human Rights Act 1998
07 October 2022 | Resource
Contents What is the Human Rights Act What does the European Court of Human Rights do? Key Articles and ... up to three months. When you use the HRA you will need to show which part of the convention has been breached and be ... was taken away from people detained under Section 47 of the Mental Health Act 1983. In other words, this differed from ...
Benefit levels now driving the increase in foodbank use
25 April 2018 | News
... benefit’ have also grown significantly. Its new data shows that Universal Credit (UC) is now a significant factor ... more likely – disabled people and people with long-term health conditions and families with children are ... said it did. Only 5% of respondents who stated they had a mental health condition, physical health condition, or were ...
Claimants with severe disability premium awards no longer exempt from the requirement to claim Universal Credit
14 January 2021 | News
New regulations have been issued that will end the severe disability premium (SDP) barrier “gateway” to Universal ... tested “legacy benefits” – ESA, JSA, and IS - UC does not include either the severe disability premium (SDP) ... and ongoing transitional payments as recompense . However, from October 2020 these transitional payments were ...
Scottish Parliament Bedroom Tax statement
07 May 2014 | News
Bedroom Tax and Discretionary Housing Payments On 7 May 2014 the Scottish Parliament heard the ... 25 April. That agreement allows us to target the funding as much as possible according to need. I am happy to confirm ... funding up to the limit of the Westminster-imposed cap on how much each council is allowed to spend on discretionary ...
Labour Force Survey analysis: disabled people
23 February 2015 | News
... Force Survey analysis of disabled people by region and main health problem covering Oct to Dec 2013 and Oct to Dec 2014 ... for those with disabilities or long term health conditions show a slight improvement in employment rates. Those with ... However the rates of employment for those with mental health problems and those with learning disabilities ...
Jenna starts Movement: University Against Disability Cuts (UADC)
31 March 2025 | News
... Mae, University Student and founder of Universities Against Disability Cuts UK, talks about how the impact of proposed benefits cuts will lead to many ... circumstances, a disability proforma, and my PIP payments. Without any one on these things, I firmly believe ...