Search results
991-1000 of 3876 results
Access to Work Scheme Owes Businesses Thousands
15 April 2025 | News
... grants to help support Disabled people in the workplace. However, businesses have told the BBC that there are ... them losing job offers. Minister for Social Security and Disability, Sir Stephen Timms, said in February that Access ... from bbc.co.uk. See also our related news story How does limiting the Access to Work Scheme get more Disabled ...
EHRC publishes disability hate crime report
05 September 2016 | News
... age hate crime or sexual orientation hate crime both fell, however it is not possible to say whether there has been a ... impairments in England and Wales, in particular people with mental health conditions such as depression or social or ...
Responding to change in jobcentres
18 June 2013 | News
... this by prioritising checks over benefits eligibility payments processing and adjusted other services such as the ... by the number of people that stop claiming benefits, not how many people each jobcentre has helped into work. The Department does know that around 40% of individuals claim benefits ...
2nd Access to Work evidence session
02 September 2014 | News
... needs of people with more "hidden" disabilities, such as mental health conditions, learning disabilities and developmental impairments, and how well Access to Work currently supports those needs. ...
Severely ill inpatient died after DWP forced him to leave hospital to make benefit claim
11 January 2022 | News
... failure to ensure the safety of disabled benefit claimants. Health professionals had told an inquest into the death of ... syndrome, while also being detained under the Mental Health Act, because of a rare reaction to medication ... claimants could die if she did not make urgent changes to how DWP deals with such cases. She told Therese Coffey in ...
Advanced payments of Universal Credit must be repaid in 6 months
25 October 2017 | News
... is money that is rightfully theirs.” He added - “However, fundamental changes are also needed to the level of Universal Credit payable to disabled people. The severe disability premium (SDP) currently gives additional support ...
DHSC's training plan must involve people with learning disabilities, says DRUK
04 November 2019 | News
... The call comes in response to the Department of Health and Social Care’s announcement that the Government will introduce mandatory learning disability training for all health and social care staff, ... the learning disabled people forced to live in long-stay mental health hospitals. Reviews are welcome but must lead ...
MPs warn that social care vision needs cash
08 August 2022 | News
... clear throughout our inquiry: the adult social care sector does not have enough funding either in the here and now, or ... It urges ministers to produce ten year plans detailing how it will deliver the vision outlined in the People at the ... or on wider structural issues in the sector, the fundamental problem is that there continues to be a large funding ...
Disabled people’s contribution to the economy
14 December 2014 | News
... to the economy Press release – for immediate use Disability Rights UK and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation are hosting a seminar to explore how economic policies can be developed which support ... mercy of cuts up to now, with more to come; but are also much less likely to be in paid employment than non-disabled ...
Deprivation of Liberty safeguards
07 October 2014 | News
... for judging whether the living arrangements made for a mentally incapacitated person amount to a deprivation of ... whatever the reason (from dementia to coma, from a mental health crisis to a learning difficult). This means getting ... reality’ - A best interests assessor gives their take on how the 'Cheshire West' ruling is impacting on frontline ...