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ILF closure: what you can do
31 March 2014 | News
... Baroness Campbell of Surbiton raised a question, on the Independent Living Fund, for short debate in the Lords Grand Committee The question asked by Baroness Campbell of ... Living Fund (ILF) What you can do Get your MP to sign Early day motion 1234 to Save the Independent Living Fund ...
Accessing green space: stories from Sheffield
17 November 2023 | News
We have been re-publishing some of our older blog posts onto this new website. Enjoy the thoughts and reviews of our DR UK team and contributors! If you have ... is therefore imperative that people trying to solve access issues really listen to disabled people and work in ...
DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
27 June 2022 | News
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ignored leading academics after they published “hugely alarming” ... – his own research suggested there were “still major problems with the WCA that could lead to increased risks of ...
Applying for Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA)
06 March 2025 | Resource
Contents Introduction Awarding authorities Who can get DSA? Which ... for DSA? Undergraduate courses Nursing, midwifery and other professions allied to medicine Part-time courses ... to another course? What happens if I leave my course early? Administration of DSA Payments Appeals and complaints ...
Presenteeism: UK’s Working-While-Sick Epidemic
08 August 2024 | News
New analysis published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) finds that the ... to take sick days, especially compared with other OECD and European countries. They are more likely to turn up at ... by the IPPR include the impact on individual productivity and recovery time from short-term illness, making bad work ...
LA Care Act implementation fails disabled people
13 October 2015 | News
Promoting choice and control? How the implementation of the Care ... Rights UK says; “Local authorities might argue that it is early days in the implementation of the Care Act but if you ...
600 disabled claimants per DEA unacceptable
27 January 2014 | News
A new Work and Pensions Committee report recommends that Jobcentre Plus (JCP) should continue to provide a public employment service for the ... of claimants' potential barriers to employment at an early stage of unemployment benefit claims. JCP's key ...
DR UK response to Right to Control pilots
29 August 2013 | News
... enable disabled people to pool resources from up to six funding streams such as Access to Work and Social Care and be in control of how our support needs ... a time to prove themselves, and evaluate the results too early. This gives space for the opponents of change, ...
Home ownership option for disabled people
19 November 2013 | News
A new policy briefing from Advance is calling for the Homes and Communities ... and the policy briefing, comes as the Government begins the early stages of developing funding plans for housing for ...
PIP 20m legal challenge fails
15 October 2015 | News
... was fair The Court of Appeal have rejected the appeal in Sumpter vs Secretary of State for Work and Pensions . This was an appeal against last year’s High ... had been conducted fairly, if not exactly flawlessly and upheld the earlier High Court decision. “The reality ...