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Disabled Facilities Grants
23 April 2025 | Resource
... by your local authority to help meet the cost of adapting a property for the needs of a Disabled person . The scheme operates in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Revised and updated: 22nd ... improved lighting for a disabled person with sight problems); have easier access to a living room; have easier ...
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 ...
Minister confirms testing of an new severe disability group for health and disability benefit receipt
12 September 2023 | News
Speaking at a Westminster Hall debate last week, Minister for ... “testing new initiatives to make it easier to apply for and receive health and disability benefits.” This includes he said, testing a ...
Using Medical Evidence In Benefit Appeals Training
23 June 2023 | News
... at how to use medical evidence effectively, particularly in Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance and Universal Credit Appeals. It considers how to deal with the traps and pitfalls appellants commonly encounter after disclosing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Learning disability and debt
12 April 2018 | News
In this guest blog post, Jason Jaspal from Disability Rights ... disabilities can experience around managing their finances, and explains why they have been working with the Money ... on a new training course for advisers. Learning disability and debt – guest blog post from Disability Rights UK ...