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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 ...
New guidance on personal budget payment cards
23 June 2019 | News
New guidance on social care personal budget says pre-payment cards should never be the only option The ... Personal (TLAP), have published a document on the use of payment cards in social care. It looks at how payment cards are being used by local authorities as a ...
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 ...
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 ...
How I left the nest and moved into my lifetime home
13 September 2018 | News
DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick talks about how he left home and the current shortage of suitable ... affordable place to live is difficult and often impossible. How I left the nest and moved into my lifetime home ...
Disability Benefit Consortium calls for emergency covid-19 benefit changes
26 March 2020 | News
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) has written an open ... have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 crisis. However, it says that these support measures need to go ... “People living with a disability and those with long-term health conditions tend to have lower real incomes and higher ...
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 ...
Nearly one in three Disabled workers say they were treated unfairly at work during the pandemic
09 June 2021 | News
... less than non-disabled peers. Recent government figures show that redundancy rates are now 62 per cent higher for ... disabled workers Disabled workers told the TUC that their disability or shielding status meant they were treated ... they have not told their employer about their disability or health condition, with many of these workers fearing being ...
PIP Fails – new MS Society report
26 January 2020 | News
A new research report by the MS Society shows that more than half of people with MS surveyed didn’t ... “PIP provides vital support to people with MS and helps pay for things such as adapted cars and help around the ... because of an application and assessment process that does not work for people with a fluctuating condition such ...
Disabled Motoring UK’s Baywatch campaign
08 April 2019 | News
... to survey their local supermarket car park to find out how many disabled bays are provided, how many cars are parked in them without a Blue Badge and what the supermarket or parking operator does about this. Find out more Disabled Motoring UK’s ...