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Progress on enforced hospitalisations ‘too slow’
07 April 2022 | News
... made by its 2020 Out of sight – who cares? restraint, segregation, and seclusion review. The latest report finds that there are ... people with a learning disability in hospital, this has nearly halved since March 2015. However, the number of ...
New To Nature work placements for young disabled people
15 October 2022 | News
... the National Lottery Heritage Fund announced a £2million investment to create 70 paid placements for young people ... 18-25 given new, full-time, temporary jobs in nature and landscape organisations across the UK, increasing diversity ...
Disabled people take complaints about UK Government’s rights record to the United Nations
20 August 2017 | News
Deaf and Disability organisations from across the United Kingdom will today (21 August) highlight the Government’s ongoing human rights violations and evasive behaviour towards a major United Nations ...
Social care may face 21% cuts, warns Labour
13 May 2020 | News
The Labour Party is warning that councils may have to brace themselves for cuts of ... James Jamieson has estimated councils will need nearly £13bn to tackle the crisis this year. The news comes ... Birmingham, Solihull, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Sunderland, Derbyshire and Coventry, all implemented easements to ...
Motorway service stations can now apply for funding to become fully accessible
10 April 2019 | News
The Department for Transport is partnering with Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK) to award the money for ... Places toilets, which are expected to be ready by the early 2020s. Read press release More than a quarter of a million people across the UK cannot use standard accessible toilets, meaning that they are forced to ...
DWP pilot making managed payments to social landlords at same time as tenant receives their UC payment
19 December 2019 | News
The DWP’s Change Director General, Neil Couling, has indicated to social landlords that changes to the Universal Credit (UC) rental ... approach out to all Social Landlords on the Landlord Portal early in 2020.” DRUK’s Welfare Rights and Policy Adviser ...
ESA support during reconsiderations
04 June 2014 | News
Get your MP to sign Early Day motion (EDM) 4 Support for people during reconsideration of employment and support allowance refusals That this House notes that at ...
DWP must take urgent action to ensure mandatory medical requirements are not placed on UC claimants, says SSAC
24 September 2019 | News
In a new report, the Social Security Advisory Committee ... which will be determined by an individual’s capability and circumstances. It is these work-related requirements ... to act … Claimants with physical and mental health problems were less likely than other claimants to feel that ...
Government Consultation on Measures to Reduce Health Related Job Loss
28 August 2019 | News
The Government has published Health is everyone’s business , a public consultation seeking views on different ways in which government and employers can take action to reduce ill health-related ... absence lasting at least four weeks. Offering flexibility, early support and occupational health advice are the key to ...
Parliamentary Committee urges Government to deliver on commitments made to Disabled people
06 March 2024 | News
Ministers “recognise that more needs to be done” to ... the lives of Disabled people, the Government has said and acknowledged “significant gaps in the data and ... people in the UK”. “Our assessment is that these issues with data quality and coverage are more pronounced ...