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Report on Ongoing Impact of Pandemic on Immunocompromised People Launched in Parliament
08 December 2023 | News
... in August 2023 revealed persistent, negative differences in health, finances, mental health, trust in politics and life satisfaction among ... people report higher levels of dissatisfaction with how the UK government handled the pandemic and with ...
DPOs demand DHSC use the social model lens within its major condition strategy
27 June 2023 | News
... call for evidence . This is where the Department of Health and Social Care sought views and ideas on how to prevent, diagnose, treat and manage the 6 major ... and social care sector of the health (both physical and mental) benefits of sports and physical activity. And that ...
Energy firms stop forced installation of pre-payment meters
10 February 2023 | News
... and campaigns officer at DR UK and one of the leads at the Disability Poverty Campaign Group, which has been instrumental in calling for a ban, said “At last. For months now ... installations may have ended, but we must now look at how we respond and what further actions we call for to ...
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 ...
Funding Postgraduate Education for Disabled Students
04 March 2024 | Resource
... qualifications Teaching Law Social work Medicine, Health and Biomedical Sciences Regional funding Research ... after graduation, it’s tempting to stay on in education. However it’s important to research whether postgraduate ... law courses. If the application form for the course doesn’t ask about your impairment you may wish to write to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...