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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Green Paper consultation is a “sham”: DR UK submission to Work and Pensions Committee
29 April 2025 | News
The House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee of MPs is undertaking a short inquiry into the proposals in the Pathways to ... Green Paper which seeks to impose savage cuts to disability and health related benefits. Chair of the Committee Debbie ...
NAO says health and disability assessments costing more and still backlogs
07 January 2016 | News
... National Audit Office report on Contracted-out health and disability assessments raises questions on the value for money of services provided by new assessment providers and has concerns about future tendering. View report - Contracted-out health and disability ...
MPs question Secretary of State on Universal Credit rollout
17 October 2017 | News
Amid growing calls from across the political spectrum for a pause in the Universal Credit rollout as evidence of problems continues to mount, the Work and Pensions Committee takes evidence from Secretary of ...
Special educational needs assessment system a ‘roll of the dice’
24 March 2021 | News
Schools are a ‘lottery’ and have the most bearing on whether a child will be identified as having Special ... the country. We know that the pandemic has compounded problems for families trying to access adequate SEND ...
Scrapping prescription charges can save money
21 May 2018 | News
... Economics Consortium published 22 May 2018 shows that scrapping prescription charges for people with Parkinson's and inflammatory bowel disease would save the NHS money. Read it here Thousands of people tell the Prescription Charges Coalition (PCC) ...