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Invitation to be part of a study of disabled people from the LGBT community
27 April 2016 | News
New study funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Social Care Research seeks ... from the LGBT community (including people who use direct payments, personal budgets or who self-fund to pay for social care). A new project launching this month however hopes to address this knowledge gap by discovering ...
Keep the £20 per week UC uplift for another year “at the very least” says Work and Pensions Committee
08 February 2021 | News
... Given this, the MPs warn that removing the temporary payment from April 2021, while the effects of the pandemic ... increase to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit. That does not mean, however, that we are not concerned about other elements of ...
Prepayment meter ban extended by Ofgem
15 March 2023 | News
A ban on the forced installation of prepayment meters by energy companies has been extended beyond ... the homes of financially vulnerable people to force fit prepayment meters to cover fuel debt. A former magistrate told ... and campaigns officer at DR UK and one of the leads at the Disability Poverty Campaign group, which has been ...
Capita takes legal action to stop compensation payment ordered after PIP claimant's tragic death
06 August 2019 | News
Capita, who conduct health assessments for PIP on behalf of the DWP, is going to ... Victoria Smith died months after her personal independence payments were stopped following a Capita assessment. Capita ... ordered to pay £10,000 in damages over its handling of her disability claim. It was found to have made incorrect ...
Esther McVey makes statement on ESA arrears: Public Accounts Committee responds
18 July 2018 | News
... of the Public Accounts Committee report on ESA underpayments More about the Public Accounts Committee report ... 15 March I provided the House with a statement setting out how the work my Department was undertaking to correct ... which has now accepted that its obligation to repay is much wider than it originally tried to claim. The numbers ...
NAO report lays bare shortfalls in adult social care
30 March 2021 | News
... by the National Audit Office (NAO). The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sets policy and has overall ... Although the CQC rates most care as good, DHSC can’t tell how effectively local authorities commission care and the ... reforms committed to in the recent White Paper. The DHSC does not have a clear strategy to develop accommodation for ...
‘Odds Stacked Against Young Disabled People’ DR UK’s Response to Lord’s Inquiry
31 October 2023 | News
... young Disabled people receive throughout this transition, how far public services demonstrate best practice on ... in life. Changes in education, welfare, student finance, health and social care are not streamlined enough and the ... and at times a dangerous impact on the young person’s mental health. We’re glad to see the Public Services ...
Government policies on rail travel to seriously disadvantage Disabled people
12 May 2023 | News
Disability Rights UK wrote to Mark Harper, Secretary of ... statistics from the Office of Road and Rail, which show the serious levels of failure of booked passenger ... which is based on the London and South East approach and does not take rural services or unstaffed stations into ...
School absenteeism seen as a ‘national crisis’
22 February 2023 | News
... solutions to the crisis. Elliot Major said that evidence on how to reduce persistent absenteeism was weak.He told the ... autistic, have SEND and are highly anxious, and many have mental health distress which is a disability.A Special Needs Jungle ...
Winter vaccine schedule for Disabled people unclear
25 August 2021 | News
... care home residents, over-70s, frontline health and social care workers and people classified as ... considered for a third jab. The news comes as new research shows that fully vaccinated adults can harbour Delta variant ... this causes greater transmission of the virus, but it does raise concerns. The current data suggests that people ...