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Liz Sayce speaks at UK Mental Disability Law Conference
30 June 2016 | News
Inaugural UK Mental Disability Law Conference 2016. Thursday 30 June – Friday ... is intended to bring researchers, active in the field of mental disability law, together for the first meeting of ...
“Barbaric and inhumane” care is “generating trauma” for Disabled children
27 April 2021 | News
The Health and Social Care Committee has heard of the horrifying ... has often asked why she's being punished." And described how her daughter was "physically pulled away from me and ... support in the community. We need greater clarity on what does actually work in the community, what is the right ...
Improving Lives: Transforming Disability Employment
27 February 2018 | News
... people are employed. Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability outlines the government’s aims to ... of the government’s new disability employment strategy How is the strategy different from previous initiatives and what does it mean for disabled people? Update on the Work and ...
Capita in U-turn over contesting compensation payment ordered after PIP claimant’s tragic death
08 August 2019 | News
... tragically died months after her personal independence payments were stopped following a Capita assessment. Capita ... dispute this at Telford County Court. Capita, who conduct health assessments for PIP on behalf of the DWP, initially ... after a court awarded to Victoria Smith’s family. However, Capita has now decided not to contest the judgement ...
Food bank use increases by thirteen per cent
06 November 2018 | News
... bank users are disabled people or those with a long-term health condition. The initiatives by Trussell Trust shows that society is reaching out to them but they must ... Credit announced in the recent Budget it highlights that much of the support will not come into force until July ...
DWP information given to Universal Credit claimants is in some cases unlawful
01 May 2019 | News
... to claimants about their universal credit payment and how to challenge a decision is in some instances unlawful. ... subject to the deadline are notified of it. A person who does not know that there is a time limit (or wrongly thinks ... which she was exempt because she receives a qualifying disability benefit).” CPAG's new report Computer says no - ...
Court of Appeal dismisses challenge to rules excluding disabled students from universal credit
16 December 2022 | News
... living components of personal independence payment (PIP). However, he is now having to use that money to meet his ... if they are in receipt of personal independence payment or disability living allowance and have been assessed or ... are not able to supplement their income with UC. “UC does not duplicate student finance as the DWP seeks to ...
MPs join activists and families in call for public inquiry into years of DWP deaths
17 December 2024 | News
... Work and Pensions (DWP). Disability News Service (DNS) has shown how the department spent more than a decade covering up ... and grieving relatives, and even lied to a coroner. Much of the evidence is included in the book The Department ... (WCA) . Among that evidence is research by public health experts from the universities of Liverpool and ...
Minister for Disabled people confirms there are no plans to means test DLA or PIP
29 November 2022 | News
... a “categorical assurance” that the means testing of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence ... part of the Chancellor’s 17 November Autumn Statement. However, on 14 November, Marsha De Cordova, Labour’s ... of Work and Pensions, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Tom Pursglove said: “We have no plans to ...
Ofcom Easy Read mobile phone guide
22 December 2013 | News
... guide offers advice to people with learning difficulties on how to get the most out of their mobile phone and on how much it could cost. It gives useful information on: the ... available; the costs of mobile phone calls and ways to pay; free services available for disabled customers; and how ...