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Update on Health Select Committee Inquiry
26 October 2014 | News
... An update on the evidence to the Health Select Committee Inquiry is now up on the Prescription Charges Coalition ... Library has issued a note on the prescription charge and other NHS charges: The prescription charge and other NHS charges Update on Health Select Committee ...
Leadership Academy First Year Ceremony
04 June 2015 | News
Friday 8 th May 2015 saw the final day of the Leadership Academy cohort of 2014-15 The programme culminated in a day of live presentations and celebrations with a Graduation Ceremony to recognise the ... at work or a change in career path. Nonetheless, nearly all of the delegates felt that they completed the ...
Over a third of PIP claimants feel unable to explain things they want to at their assessment
02 January 2018 | News
Over a third of personal independence payment (PIP) claimants (39%) feel unable to ... research. The DWP commissioned Ipsos MORI to quantitative and qualitative research with PIP claimants designed to give ... was around key communications from the DWP. In particular, nearly all claimants agreed that the DWP made it clear that ...
Reinstating DLA awards: Non-attendance of PIP consultation with good reason
19 December 2018 | News
Statement made by: Sarah Newton (Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work. I would like to update the House on the ... should be receiving an ongoing award. This is still in the early stages and being dealt with in date order, ...
Sue Bott submits Ideal for All petition
30 July 2013 | News
Sue Bott from Disability Rights UK who have been supporting Ideal for All in their campaign to stop cuts to their independent living centre, hands over the petition to Sandwell’s Director of Social ... charity in Sandwell, could be forced to close its doors as early as October 2013 to disabled people due to severe cuts ...
DR UK says figures for rejected PIP mandatory reconsiderations a disgrace
13 December 2016 | News
In over 80% of mandatory reconsiderations the Personal ... success rate of PIP appeals the figures for rejected PIP mandatory reconsiderations are a disgrace. PIP has now been ... hope that the second independent review of PIP will report early in the new year and recommend root and branch changes ...
Disabled people excluded from mass participation event trials
21 April 2021 | News
Government guidance is causing venues to directly discriminate against Disabled people ... exclude ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ people from early-access large scale public events as part of its Events ... Programme (ERP) terms as a ‘pilot event’. The data and analysis from this event will be fed back directly to ...
DR UK comments on Lord Freud debate
27 October 2014 | News
Breaking through low expectations – comments from Disability ... to enable more disabled people to get decent work, at and above the minimum wage. We urge politicians on all sides ... and are now pressing Government to fix the significant problems with Access to Work. DR UK comments on Lord Freud ...
Pause deductions from benefits to ease cost of living crisis, MPs say
26 July 2022 | News
With inflation set to peak at its highest level for 40 years, a new report from the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee highlights how deductions from ... energy, fuel and food costs, has exposed longer standing problems with the adequacy of the social security system. As ...
Covid ‘putting a rocket under’ children’s poor mental health outcomes
22 February 2021 | News
New data reported in the British Journal of Psychiatry shows that 7% of children have attempted suicide by the age of 17 and almost one in four say they have self-harmed in the past ... fears that these figures have risen even higher during the pandemic. The figures are taken from analysis of the lives of ...