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Latest learning disabilities mortality statistics make for grim reading
03 May 2018 | News
The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Annual Report 2017 View ... learning disabilities, identify learning from those deaths, and take forward the learning into service improvement ... a local, named health care coordinator. Providers should clearly identify people requiring the provision of reasonable ...
Bromley Council wrongly made care cuts without reassessing needs
04 June 2018 | News
... cut by London Borough of Bromley, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found. Read Ombudsman article Calls to our Personal Budgets helpline show that this is a common problem facing many disabled ... deal of support. In this case, the man, who has autism and other needs, and his mother had been in receipt of ...
Government continues Household Support Fund (HSF)
03 September 2024 | News
... residents with essential expenses such as food, utilities, and clothing . The funding is provided by central government and enables local councils to support low-income families in ...
The future of social security post austerity
30 August 2016 | News
For Us All: Redesigning social security, for the 2020s. Read report This Fabian ... as part of a strategic agenda for raising British living standards following the UK’s decision to leave the EU. It ... that social security for pensioners is now on a strong and sustainable footing but that the system for ...
Helpline Closure over the Christmas and New Year Period
14 December 2023 | News
As we approach the end of 2023, we would like to inform you about the upcoming temporary closures of our helpline services. Disabled Students Helpline and Personal Budgets Helpline : Closed from 18th December ... from 22nd December 2023. Our Disabled Students Helpline and Personal Budgets Helplines will resume their normal ...
Irwin Mitchell Access All Areas campaign
21 June 2015 | News
Irwin Mitchell’s Access All Areas campaign seeks to highlight the problems disabled people face when seeing live music, as ... Mitchell are sending two wheelchair users – Rosie Mayes and Charlotte Fairbank - to some of the big summer festivals ...
You can’t merge two badly constructed assessment processes
04 March 2019 | News
... proposals for disability benefits assessments. Commenting on the statement from Amber Rudd about the changes to ... who are over pension age. ‘But there are some fundamental problems which still need to be addressed. Assessments for both Employment Support Allowance and Personal Independence Payment are flawed and poorly ...
Health Secretary slams ‘horrific examples’ of housing for Disabled people
19 May 2021 | News
... Matt Hancock has condemned ‘horrific examples’ of housing after ITV exposed two cases of Disabled people forced to ... black mold, one of whom has a serious breathing condition and another who has anxiety and lives with her small children. 10 million people are ...
Unions and campaigners call for government to improve flexible working rights
25 July 2023 | News
After the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill came into law last week, unions, rights groups including Disability Rights UK, and women’s organisations have come together to call on the government to go further and deliver on its manifesto commitments to unlock flexible ...
Underspend Exposes Failures of Access For All Rail Programme
15 October 2024 | News
... railway stations has been “significantly” underperforming and as a result there is a major underspend of £99 million. ... [...] we are so sorry for the delays to these projects and we are working as hard as we can to get them back on ...