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The Equality Act and Disabled people
22 December 2022 | Resource
Contents What is the Equality Act? What is Physical or mental impairment? What is a substantial and long-term ... are normal day-to-day activities? Types of discrimination How you can use the Equality Act What the Act can do for you ... be able to report this as a hate crime The Equality Act does cover harassment by an individual at a place where ...
How do politicians discuss disability issues? An interactive research tool
23 March 2017 | News
How do politicians discuss disability issues? Read blog Has this changed over time? When do particular ways of speaking about disability become popular, or fall out of favour? Evan ... this excellent interactive blog which enables you to see how regularly disability related words and phrases ...
How to cope with disability at work: Guardian live chat
21 February 2017 | News
Do you have a disability or are you an employer in need of expert advice ... Careers’ disability at work week. Subjects include: How to cope with bullying or harassment at work because of ... on finding work and disclosing disabilities to employers. How employers can foster better working environments for ...
“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 ...
DLA, PIP and AA now devolved to Scotland
28 March 2016 | News
... Benefits devolved to the Scottish Parliament include Disability Living Allowance, Carer’s Allowance, Attendance ... the Scottish Government will have new powers to determine: how claimants are paid and how much some claimants get for housing support; how often to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 - ...
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 ...
Reinstate the Access to Elected Office Fund!
25 November 2023 | News
... adjustments for Disabled candidates of elected officer. However, despite evidence that such a Fund is necessary, the ... has so far failed to re-establish it. The Government’s Disability Action Plan consultation proposes that a Fund be ... would have 130 disabled MPs, or MPs with long-term health conditions. Women also remain underrepresented in ...