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Liz Sayce joins Healthwatch Committee
13 May 2014 | News
Disability rights expert takes up role with health and social care consumer champion Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK, Liz Sayce, has been appointed to the committee of Healthwatch England to help ... With personal experience and knowledge of mental health issues, she has published widely on mental health, ...
Disability Confident Britain? DWP progress report
09 December 2014 | News
The DWP has issued a report on its progress to increase employment opportunities for disabled people 1 year after we set out our plans in the disability and health employment strategy: the discussion so far. The ... campaign, extended Access to Work scheme coverage, and Work Choice programme. In the foreword to the new ...
Shielders told to shield – but only up to a point
04 November 2020 | News
A second lockdown is now running from 5 November to 2 December. New guidance has been ... in his address to the nation that it would be a “medical and moral disaster” if the country did not go into ... available with ever increasing waiting times, resulting in nearly 13,000 extra deaths to date, not related to the virus. ...
End the “Persecution” of Unpaid Carers Says DR UK
09 April 2024 | News
The Government is facing calls to abandon cruel and nonsensical fines levied on ... according to statistics from Carers UK. “Meanwhile, nearly 8% of unpaid carers in receipt of carer’s allowance ...
DR UK Responds To Proposed Changes To Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
29 April 2024 | News
... to be published that will set out plans to change personal independence payments (PIP), the main disability benefit for adults, through changes to eligibility criteria and assessments. Personal Independence Payment is a vital piece of social infrastructure, and the clear agenda of the Government's latest proposal is ...
Strategic partner updates December 2015
30 November 2015 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner ... up a user-led consortium as one of 22 strategic partners in the voluntary sector. Our name is ‘Win-Win Alliance – ... Supporting wider health and care economy implementation issues Our health and social care system is at its core ...
Abandoned, forgotten and ignored' – report shows Coronavirus' impact on disabled people
24 June 2020 | News
Inclusion London has launched its interim report based on ... disabled people have been discriminated against, forgotten, and in some cases abandoned as policymakers have ignored our ... talked about increasing levels of psychological distress Nearly half of the respondents talked about inaccessible ...
The future of social care and the forthcoming govt green paper
07 March 2018 | News
Yesterday, Think Local Act Personal held a meeting to discuss the future ... partnership that promotes personalisation, direct payments and personal budgets in social care. TLAP heard from Department of Health and Social Care officials. You can find their ...
Govt talks with DR UK and DBC on PIP mobility rules
04 May 2016 | News
... the Government’s agreement to hold urgent talks with us and the Disability Consortium on the fairness of the current PIP moving around descriptors. The public offer was made by the DWP ... Government to hold urgent talks with Disability Rights UK and the Disability Benefits Consortium to identify a ...
Almost half of Grenfell fire deaths were Disabled people and children
30 March 2021 | News
Fifteen of the 37 Disabled residents and 17 of the 67 children living in Grenfell Tower died in the fire that killed 72 people ... They raised safety concerns which were dismissed time and again. The Inquiry has heard from residents who said ...