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Public Health England launch new Every Mind Matters campaign
16 April 2020 | News
Public Health England launch new Every Mind Matters campaign PHE has launched a campaign to ... weighted towards those most at risk of mental health problems and more vulnerable groups (such as BAME groups and ...
Calls grow for changes to the Energy bill on Prepayment meters
10 May 2023 | News
Campaigners are asking that the Governments Energy Bill , which has its second ... rules that PPMs should not be installed for those aged 85 and over, those who are terminally ill, those with certain illnesses such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema and sickle cell disease, and others who rely on powered ...
DR UK says £150 September Cost of Living payment to disabled people “nowhere near enough”
22 August 2022 | News
Around 6 million disabled people in the UK will receive their one-off £150 disability Cost ... costs they often face, such as food, care and support services, equipment, energy, fuel and travel costs. Ken Butler DR UK’s Welfare Rights and ...
Disabled households worse off on Universal Credit breakthrough test case win
12 May 2020 | News
A single mother with a disabled daughter and a woman with ... disadvantage legacy benefit claimants. Especially when nearly half of all those living in poverty live in a ...
Assessing disability awareness training provided to bus drivers
12 May 2016 | News
The Department for Transport (DfT) is looking to assess the impact and quality of the disability awareness training provided to ... their experiences of using buses or coaches, any particular problems they face or barriers to using this mode of ...
Commission Launches Major Report on Health and Social Care Reform
13 September 2023 | News
Today marks the launch of the Institute for Public Policy Research's new report entitled For Public Health and Public Finances: Reforming Health and Social Care. The report goes into the ways we need a ...
Could Care Act fail from poor funding?
06 August 2014 | News
... press release states that 9 out of 10 councils are warning that a lack of adequate Government funding could ... of the adult social care system under the new Care Act Problems with funding could place care services out of reach for thousands of people, their families and their carers. The LGA has ...
Summer festival accessibility
15 June 2015 | News
Blue Badge Style have gathered some information about the headliners at the biggest festivals and also looked into their disabled access ... Access All Areas campaign seeks to highlight the problems disabled people face when seeing live music, as ...
Unison homecare study shows effect of cuts on care provision
28 January 2016 | News
An online survey of just over 1000 homecare workers finds them inadequately trained and with less time to allowed to provide care. They are ... they are being denied access to vital knowledge, new skills and career opportunities, the survey finds. Inadequate ...
The transition from being a Disabled child to becoming a Disabled adult by Emily Nicole Roberts
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 ... Being a disabled child began for me with naivety. In my early years, I was simply just a child, then, I began ...