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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 ...
World Cerebral Palsy Day 2018
05 October 2018 | News
Contributing lives for people with cerebral palsy World Cerebral ... Palsy Day is a movement of people with cerebral palsy (CP) and their families, and the organisations that support them, ... and find incredibly frustrating similarities. The same issues keep coming up again and again. “One of those ...
Proposed housing benefit cap for social housing tenants abandoned
25 October 2017 | News
Prime Minister announces local housing allowance cap will not be ... Prime Minister My hon. Friend raises an important issue, and this is something that we have been looking at very ... on Tuesday 31 October, and it will look at a wide range of issues. We need to ensure that the funding model is right so ...
DR UK meets new Minister for Disabled People
18 July 2016 | News
Today we met the new Minister for Disabled People Penny Mordaunt, alongside other ... We were glad to have the chance to raise several issues: the importance of the Government sticking to Stephen ... people in this Parliament the need for significant action and new approaches, devised with disabled people and our ...
I Can Make It is thrilled by news from Andy Street, and on the road to ‘I Can Make a Pledge’
16 November 2017 | News
I Can Make It is thrilled that Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), Andy Street , in his keynote speech at the inaugural ...
Strategic partner updates for March 2014
04 March 2014 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner ... England and Public Health England. This month’s update includes reflections on Disability Rights UK’s events and ... we will have a meeting with Public Health England in early March. One of our key aims is to create the right ...
01 Strategic partner updates January 2015
19 January 2015 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner to ... up a user-led consortium as one of 22 strategic partners in the voluntary sector. Our name is ‘Win-Win Alliance – ... the Committee would need to be confident that by acting early, treatments would slow or even prevent this serious ...
DR UK joins public call for Michael Gove to freeze rents
23 February 2023 | News
... the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, Mayor of Liverpool City Region Steve Rotherham, leaders of the Green party, think tanks and charities have signed an open letter calling ... average rent rises of £3400 (20.5%) in December, nearly double the 12% national figure. Millions trapped ...