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DPOs demand full disclosure at Covid Inquiry
06 June 2023 | News
... people when planning for and responding to the pandemic. How and why many Disabled people were initially excluded ... from Covid 19 and from other conditions due to cuts to health and social care, and (2) at risk socially, physically ... the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984 granted so much power to the Executive over and above the scrutiny of ...
Standard of ESA and PIP assessments unacceptable says Public Accounts Committee
30 March 2016 | News
... the level of service for claimants with fluctuating and mental health conditions. It also questions the value for money of ... contractors are below the required standard and evidence shows that attempts to reduce delays have undermined the ...
Government issues ‘phase two’ Coronavirus guidance
10 May 2020 | News
The Government has issued new guidance on how it is responding to Coronavirus, including social and ... makes no specific reference to disabled people, but does make reference to ‘clinically vulnerable’ and ... (including children in need, those with an Education, Health and Care plan and those assessed as otherwise ...
Our concerns over timetable for moving existing disabled claimants to UC
30 July 2018 | News
... for moving disabled people and people with long-term health conditions from legacy benefits onto Universal ... managed migration, which include being disabled or having a mental health condition, but we are concerned about how these claimants will be identified. There is currently ...
Universal Credit £20 week increase must be extended to ESA, DBC tells Chancellor
02 June 2020 | News
... take too long to make changes. The most recent DWP figures show that 1,976,000 disabled people claim ESA . The ... 60 days people living with a disability or with long-term health conditions on ESA – who tend to have lower incomes ... "To blame an IT problem for not awarding disabled people a much needed increase in benefit is discriminatory and ...
New UK Poverty report recommends the £20 per week increase to Universal Credit must be made permanent with the lifeline extended to ESA
12 January 2021 | News
... The new annual report highlights early indications of how poverty has changed in our society since the start of ... outbreak. JRF finds of all people in poverty either have a disability themselves or live with someone who does, compared with just a third of people in households not ...
Over three quarters of a million Disabled people left out of shielding help
21 April 2021 | News
... to living essentials like food, and an untold toll on the mental health and wellbeing of the already most vulnerable.” The ... report, which should form part of an urgent Inquiry into how the pandemic was handled. We continue to push for this ...
Government rejects default sending of ESA and PIP medical reports
22 April 2018 | News
... loss of trust that risks undermining the operation of major disability benefits". Among the Committee’s ... all claimants alongside their initial entitlement decision. However, in rejecting this the Government says that: “In ... with material that they do not want.” But, the Government does give a positive response to another of the ...
New Secretary of State for Health and Social Care appointed
09 July 2018 | News
The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP is the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Read biography The Secretary of ... at least in line with prices Consistently voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability Almost always voted for making local councils ...
Wiltshire CIL wins GSK IMPACT Award
09 March 2014 | News
... five per cent of its trustees are people living with a disability. The charity supports independent living for those with learning difficulties, frailty of old age, mental health issues, physical and sensory impairments and ...