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Large increase in disability employment discrimination cases
19 January 2020 | News
Financial Times analysis finds large increase in disability ... discrimination cases going to tribunal each quarter, and in the most recently data covering July to September ... to justice remain for disabled people. Cuts to legal aid and the lack of support for law centres means many disabled ...
DR UK and our members respond to Commons defeat of Lords amendments
23 February 2016 | News
The result of the Commons vote not to reinstate the 25% cut to new ESA claimants from April 2017 is ... to be able to afford to take part in things like training and work experience. It will also lead to disabled people struggling to pay food and heating bills which will have a damaging impact on their ...
CQC to conduct 12 local system reviews of health and social care
04 July 2017 | News
CQC has been asked by the Secretaries of State for Health and for Communities and Local Government to undertake a programme of local system reviews of health and social care in 12 local authority areas. Read CQC press release These ...
Personal Budgets: The right social care support
15 April 2025 | Resource
The Care Act introduces new functions upon councils to focus on promoting wellbeing and prevention including offering personal budgets, ... interests of the beneficiaries of the Trust. The same issues apply about any financially assessed contributions ...
DR UK gives evidence to Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement
25 April 2018 | News
Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement: The Ties that Bind: Citizenship and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century Read report ...
DR UK signs petition against shared space and presents letter to PM
10 May 2018 | News
On the anniversary of a report condemning the use of shared space, Transport for All joined the ... for a day of action outside Parliament. Read full report and letter to the Prime Minister Around forty Disabled and older people, as well as representatives from ...
Disabled people between 3 and 4 times more likely to die of Coronavirus - ONS
10 February 2021 | News
... Disabled people were at more than three times the risk of dying from Coronavirus than non-disabled people between January and November 2020. The risk was 3.1 times greater for more-disabled men and 1.9 times greater for less-disabled men, compared to ...
New HMCTS webchat service to give social security appeal guidance and support
15 September 2019 | News
People using Her Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) website can now get immediate social security and child support and probate guidance and support online ...
NHS app to make it quick and easy to book a GP appointment
12 November 2018 | News
Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: “The NHS app is a world-first which will put patients firmly in the driving seat and revolutionise the way we access health services.” More ...
Biggest increase in redundancies since financial crash
15 September 2020 | News
The UK labour market has lost almost 700,000 jobs since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak in March, ... Times. Over five million workers remain on furlough, and The Daily Telegraph reports that pay in real terms ... at disabled people, specialist disability job coaches and improvements to the Access to Work scheme.” Biggest ...