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Benefits cap hurts children and lone parents
06 August 2013 | News
The DWP has produced statistics showing the number of households capped to June 2013 By the end of June 2013: Almost 2.7 thousand households had their housing benefit capped 85% of households had between 1 and 4 children 74% of households constituted a single parent ...
Have the DWP’s Covid 19 support measures been effective?: new SSAC report
22 November 2020 | News
... Committee (SSAC) has published a detailed report reviewing the effectiveness of thetemporary social security ... that have been introduced by the DWP during the Covid 19 pandemic. Its review also explores the degree to which they ... the Departments’ emergency measures, we have also found issues that should be addressed to further sustain this ...
Universal Credit rollout to roll on
20 June 2018 | News
The Government has no plans for any U-turn, delay or halt in the rollout of universal credit, placing its faith in a flexible business plan and the 'evangelical' zeal of its jobcentre staff. See House ... Stedman-Scott replied: “…..There have been issues…. We have a business plan for the rollout. In any ...
Disability Rights UK announce ten-year funding from City Bridge Foundation
13 January 2025 | News
... is delighted to announce that we have secured ten-year funding from the City Bridge Foundation – London’s biggest ... providing support to London’s frontline groups led by and for their communities. Whilst different in focus and ... with Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs), focusing on issues we know affect them. So over the next decade we will: ...
Social care faces Coronavirus and immigration ‘perfect storm’
10 March 2020 | News
The social care sector must be prioritised in the Budget, as it faces a ‘perfect storm’ of the threat from Coronavirus and new immigration policy, set to kick in from 1 January 2021. Potentially hundreds of thousands of job vacancies could remain unfilled as a result of ...
Ministers and councils urged to dump ‘disability tax’
11 November 2018 | News
Charging for social care is an unfair and costly tax on ... in both the amount they charge for social care support - and who they charge. The study aimed to establish whether ...
Disability Rights UK Research and Manifesto on Brexit
20 April 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK has been researching the possible impact of Brexit on disabled people’s ... has included looking at UK laws that have a basis in EU law and what might be required to avoid aspects being lost or ... Centres for Independent Living, charities, Trade Unions and individual disabled people. To provide some legislative ...
DWP’s Work Programme More Effective When It’s By Choice, Not Force
30 January 2024 | News
Disabled people who have taken part voluntarily in a Government employment support programme have been more ... programme, carried out on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and first published last October, analyses the success of ...
More meetings and preparations for I Can Make It
09 February 2017 | News
... for Liverpool Hannah Ross spoke at a well-attended panel in at the University of Oxford as part of the 42 Bedford Row ... ‘the long-term goals of the I Can Make It campaign and how they fit in with the government’s promises to ... She “valued hearing the opinions of law professionals and academics, who had experience dealing with companies and ...
‘It’s everyone’s journey’ – transport campaign and funding launched
28 October 2019 | News
Bus services in Great Britain are to receive a £2m cash injection to provide audio and visual equipment to help people with visual and hearing impairments know when to board and alight from ...