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New Discretionary Housing Payments guidance
12 August 2015 | News
The DWP has issued a new Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) guidance manual View manual Following the ... we made submissions that this guidance should advise that Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence ... requires further financial assistance, you can decide how to treat any expenditure, offsetting it against income ...
Labour's Betrayal of Those in Greatest Need
09 April 2025 | News
... since 2009, which exposed the government-induced public health crisis impacting on those in greatest need with ... to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) long-term disability benefit, which is directly linked to the ... rising numbers of people claiming disability benefit for a mental health problem, whilst continuing to disregard the ...
Benefit loss not eased by working or moving
11 August 2013 | News
... (CESI) for the Local Government Association (LGA) shows that less than a quarter of those on benefits will be ... from their council, such as Discretionary Housing Payments, to help them cope with the reduction in welfare. ... new homes by relaxing the rules which severely limit how much councils can borrow against their existing housing ...
Personal Budgets: The right social care support
15 April 2025 | Resource
... What is a Personal Budget? Getting a Personal Budget How a personal budget can change your life Receiving and ... you are empowered to live the life you choose by seeing how much money is available to buy the care you need. Personal ... appointed by the Court of Protection as a Deputy under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Usually the “Suitable Person” ...
Fall in Number of Bus Drivers Given Disability Training
07 June 2023 | News
... responses from more than 40 regions across Great Britain, showed more operators were offering audio-visual ... of people who are older or have a disability, illness or mental health issue will continue to grow. Anything done to improve ...
More than £1 million for 10 new research projects led by disabled people
17 January 2018 | News
... and £150,000 of National Lottery funding each, to explore how disabled people can live as full citizens in our society ... will be led by disabled people or people with long term health conditions; they will be developing approaches and ... as people living with dementia, learning disabilities and mental health issues. The English projects are: ALLFIE (The ...
Ombudsman upholding two-thirds of adult social care complaints
19 November 2017 | News
... sorting out the day-to-day stuff but what you learn and how you use that as tool for improvement”. Sue Bott from Disability Rights UK said: "I feel completely frustrated by ... is clear it is almost entirely about older people and how much they should pay. How else do you explain the list of ...
UK's Chief Medical Officers publish the first-ever guidelines on physical activity for disabled children and young people
16 February 2022 | News
... children and young people to improve their physical and mental health throughout their lives. Brett Smith, Director of ... active in ways that work for them, and these guidelines show how important this is. The evidence-based infographic is ...
Why is inspiration porn entrenched in our attitudes towards disability? By Ned Kelly
17 November 2023 | News
... and doing your daily activities, that would be unusual. However, across the world many disabled people are portrayed ... Activist, Elizabeth Wright argues that disabled people are much more than their disability. She said: “I want to talk ... at the Paralympics. Martin thinks that inspiration porn does have a negative impact on disability, he said: “We ...
Know Your Normal: The experiences of young autistic people
06 June 2018 | News
... Know Your Normal (#knowyournormal) is a new report on mental health in autism. The aim of the research was to find out ... (16-25 years) across England and to make recommendations on how best to meet their needs. Around 70-80% of children and ...