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Govt response: Better working with disabled people
15 January 2014 | News
In July 2013 the ODI published the consultation 'Better ... effective way for government to engage with disabled people and raised the question of the future of of Equality 2025 ... Minister of State for Care and Support; Identify specific issues for in-depth policy analysis, to be passed to experts ...
Obesity and disability
22 December 2014 | News
Fag og Arbejde (FOA) v Kommunernes Landsforening (KL) - Case C-354/13 This was a request for a ... the interpretation of the general principles of EU law and of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 ...
Transport and Isolation
04 October 2024 | News
As we have always insisted, transport-related social exclusion has ... been found to disproportionately affect Disabled people and those with long-term health conditions, and to particularly occur in areas with low incomes ...
Government response to the call for evidence on access to elections
29 August 2018 | News
On Tuesday 5 September 2017, the Minister for the Constitution launched a Call for Evidence, ... how people with disabilities experience registering to vote and voting itself. Go to consultation and government ... national and / or local disabled persons groups to identify issues from the viewpoint of disabled people. Action 2: The ...
Complaining about local authority decisions
07 October 2022 | Resource
... local authority/council. It is useful if you have a complaint about: the behaviour of local authority staff ... assessments housing grants assessments personalisation and individual budgets assessments residential care ... complaint though it is probably better to contact them as early as possible. If you don't know the name of your ...
Health of Millions at risk as Universal Credit Falls So Far Short of the Cost of Essentials
29 August 2023 | News
Organisations representing hundreds of thousands of health and care professionals, ... “ And as the prevalence of mental health problems rises, it’s more important than ever that we ...
VODG demands clarification on overnight case support
17 March 2019 | News
Disability services group issues fresh demand on government to resolve confusion in overnight support. Read press release Long-running ...
Commons publishes briefing on the future of Attendance Allowance
09 October 2016 | News
A recent Government consultation proposed transferring Attendance Allowance to councils as part of 100% ... consider “giving more responsibility to councils in England, and to Wales, to support older people with care needs – ...
Psychologists Walking the Talk for social justice
18 August 2015 | News
... Psychological Society (BPS) President Jamie Hacker Hughes and Stephen Weatherhead, editor of Clinical Psychology Forum, are walking the 100 miles from the ... to demonstrate that psychology really does care about these issues and wants to listen so that, as a group of ...
New bedroom tax court decision says councils decide what counts as a bedroom
05 June 2017 | News
... issue of whether it is a bedroom for bedroom tax purposes. In a disappointing new judgment, the Court of Session in Scotland has ruled that the classification of a property as ... related to the actual needs of the occupiers. A First Tier and then an Upper Tier Tribunal (in CSH/734/2014 ) upheld a ...