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New Care and Support Alliance survey reveals shocking picture of neglect in care system
09 May 2018 | News
... nearly 4,000 people who need care or look after someone who does reveals the damning reality of a care system that is ... to an open letter to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, highlighting the urgent need for him ... care; the unnecessary pressure being placed on the NHS and how family and friends who step in to try to fill the gap ...
Minister outlines recent changes to Statutory Sick Pay entitlement rules
12 January 2021 | News
... has outlined recent changes made to statutory sick pay (SSP) entitlement rules. Mr Tomlinson said: ... because they have been notified by the NHS or public health authority that they have come into contact with ... because they have been advised to do so by their doctor or health clinician before being admitted to hospital for ...
Risk of major disability poverty rise
12 June 2013 | News
Risk of major disability poverty rise Today’s poverty figures from DWP ... us out of poverty. The Government must also ensure work pays by ensuring the numbers of disabled people helped to ... disabled member and not receiving disability benefits were much more likely to be in low-income households compared to ...
Discretionary Housing Payment includes DLA
17 June 2013 | News
Irwin Mitchell challenge local authority's decision to take Disability Living Allowance into account when considering Discretionary Housing Payments Every local authority receives a government grant ... Housing Payments in March 2013 from their local authority. However, the local authority decided that in assessing Mr ...
Self-Directed Support in Scotland
20 August 2014 | News
... in order to provide a range of choices to individuals as to how they are provided with their support”. The Scottish ... new duties can be summarised as: A person must have as much involvement in the assessment process as they wish and ... for the local authority. The four options are: a direct payment. directing the available support. services arranged ...
DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
27 June 2022 | News
... reports. The failure is just the latest evidence to show how the DWP ignored and covered-up warnings about the ... process to cause some very major adverse effects on mental health”. He added that while it was impossible to prove ...
Notts Council cuts breached Care Act - Ombudsman
27 January 2020 | News
... councils can consider the financial cost when deciding how much to pay a person to meet their eligible needs, they cannot make ...
Are telephone and video appeal hearings working for Disabled people?: two new surveys launched
30 June 2021 | News
... focus of the project is those with disabilities, notably mental health related. As part of the project, IPR Justice has launched two surveys aimed at gathering evidence of how the new ways the remote replacements to face to face ...
DR UK submits evidence to review of carers allowance
13 March 2025 | News
Last year, Government announced a review to look at why and how unpaid carers, in receipt of carers allowance, were hit with demands to pay back thousands of pounds in overpayments to DWP. ... its findings and recommendations to ministers, this summer. Disability Rights UK was invited to attend a roundtable ...
Work Programme, WCA neither effective nor accurate
20 August 2014 | News
... programme are “far from satisfactory” for people with mental health and behavioural problems. It is estimated that 1.9 million people are receiving ESA. However, the IPPR explain that people with mental health ...