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Student FAQs
23 September 2024 | Resource
... jobseeker's allowance; income-related employment and support allowance; child tax credit and working tax ... on adjustments for more suggestions. If you experience problems in receiving adjustments, your disability adviser ... complaints procedure . This process ensures unresolved issues are addressed at a higher level and your concerns are ...
DR UK responds to SEND Crisis Inquiry
28 February 2025 | News
... UK) has responded to the Education Select Committee's Solving the SEND Crisis Inquiry . You can read the full ... was to "focus on how to achieve both short term stability and long-term sustainability for the SEND system to improve ... on local authorities and schools are the most common issues highlighted, but this implies that the problem that ...
Increase Benefits And Scrap WCA Proposals - DR UK Writes To Chancellor Ahead Of His Autumn Statement
17 November 2023 | News
... to be urgently increased. In addition, proposals to reform and then abolish the work capability assessment be ... to you ahead of your 2023 Autumn Statement to raise two issues of vital importance to Disabled people – benefit ... Disabled people on low incomes encounter many of the same problems as others, but also have additional, ...
PIP, DLA and AA end in Scotland from 2021
04 March 2019 | News
Scottish consultation: Building better Disability Assistance benefits. Find out more ... Disability Assistance will meet the needs of the children and adults it is intended to help. It will build upon work ... 2021 - Disability Assistance for Working-Age People (DAWAP) Early 2021 - Disability Assistance for Older People (DAOP) ...
New rules: PIP and terminal illness
23 February 2016 | News
New amending regulations have been issued that modify the requirement for a terminally ill claimant who is transferring from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal ... Regulations 2016 (SI.No.189/2016) New rules: PIP and terminal illness ...
06 Strategic partner updates July 2015
07 July 2015 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner to ... up a user-led consortium as one of 22 strategic partners in the voluntary sector. Our name is ‘Win-Win Alliance – ... aged 10 to 24, provides guidance and practical support on issues such as tackling teenage pregnancy, smoking and drug ...
COVID Inquiry Hears About Government Disregard of Disabled People
10 October 2023 | News
On 9 October, the COVID-19 Public Inquiry heard hard hitting evidence from Professors of Disability Studies, Tom Shakespeare and Nick Watson, and Kamran Mallick, CEO of Disability ... Disabled people, both prior to and during the pandemic. Issues highlighted included the greater susceptibility of ...
PIP Reform Green Paper’s Clear Agenda Is Reducing Financial Support To Disabled People Says DR UK
30 April 2024 | News
... Green Paper consultation on the need for extensive personal independence payment reform (PIP), openly predicated on its ... his foreword to the document, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Mel Stride says: “I am concerned about the ... crucial financial support from people with mental health problems is not going fix anything, it will make things ...
Councils use of Capita leads to 7 per cent cut in care packages
22 September 2016 | News
Southampton City Council (SCC) has employed the outsourcing giant Capita to clear a backlog of annual reviews of its ... care packages, in an apparent attempt to cut costs and help fill a hole in its budget. Read the Disability News ... with high-cost support packages out of their own homes and into residential and nursing institutions. It had ...
MPs join activists and families in call for public inquiry into years of DWP deaths
17 December 2024 | News
MPs have joined disabled activists and bereaved families in calling for ... the government to order a public inquiry through an early day motion (EDM) tabled by John McDonnell, the former ...