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Personalised approaches to care - statement
18 May 2020 | News
... last week as part of an ongoing programme of work across health and social care to maintain and champion personalised ... a joint statement: Statement The outbreak of coronavirus does not change long-established best practice that ... and possible, and in compliance with the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and related guidance where ...
DR UK welcomes Govt decision not to appeal PIP psychological distress judgement
18 January 2018 | News
... McVey has now confirmed that the DWP will not appeal Disability Rights UK, who supported this case, welcome the ... U-turn as it affects an estimated 164,000 claimants with mental health conditions. You can read reports of the Government's ...
Inspiring disabled staff groups to express and address local needs
11 October 2016 | News
... within a local framework. Read blog Bernd coordinates our Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner ... to improve services and promote well-being for all. It does this by: Helping reach the most vulnerable, excluded ... Our Lives and CHANGE). For any comments and/or ideas about how to strengthen ‘disabled people leading change’, ...
Access to Work cap goes up to £59,200 in April
11 February 2019 | News
... to Work provides financial support to ensure someone’s disability or health condition doesn’t hold them back at work, and last year more than ...
Abolition of Human Rights Act kicked into touch
25 January 2017 | News
... the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights. This does not necessarily mean that decisions of the European ... UK but the proposed British Bill of Rights would determine how much notice the UK took of decisions made by that court. As ...
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 ...
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 Shadow ... of Work and Pensions, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Tom Pursglove said: “We have no plans to ...
Opportunity for disabled people to help hold Government to account on its record on disabled people’s rights
21 July 2016 | News
... or subject to compulsion, for instance in relation to mental health or mental capacity law. Liz Sayce, CEO of Disability ... their organisations across England and Wales to report on how well the UN Convention is being put into practice.” ...
Council’s personal budget capping wrong - Ombudsman
12 January 2020 | News
... a disabled man’s personal budget by capping respite payments at the equivalent cost of residential care, despite ... identified failings, the Ombudsman found that all evidence showed residential care to be unsuitable for the man, and it ... should be), they should not set arbitrary limits on how much they will pay to meet a need as this “would not ...
Research Exposes How the DWP ‘Weaponised’ Time to Avoid Accountability for Deaths
16 August 2023 | News
New research has exposed how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has ... at Healing Justice Ldn, and is a senior lecturer in public health – and DNS editor John Pring. It details the ... It shows how, “despite being one of the main governmental tools to investigate deaths linked to the social ...