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The University of Stirling to study the impact of place and stigma on older Disabled adults
23 August 2022 | News
University of Stirling housing expert Dr Vikki McCall will lead new research to ... Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA)’ will investigate and identify how stigma related to age, disability, and where someone lives creates additional barriers for ...
The University of Stirling to study the impact of place and stigma on older Disabled adults
22 August 2022 | News
University of Stirling housing expert Dr Vikki McCall will lead new research to ... Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA)’ will investigate and identify how stigma related to age, disability, and where someone lives creates additional barriers for ...
No progress since 2016 on "grave and systemic" violations of Disabled people's rights - UN report says
25 April 2024 | News
... This follows an oral evidence session at the United Nations in March, where the UK Government was questioned by the ... follow up from the UN’s 2016 report which found “grave and systemic” violations of Disabled people’s rights. ... failed to take all appropriate measures to address grave and systematic violations of the human rights of persons ...
54,665 ESA sanctions since 2012
18 February 2015 | News
Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance sanctions: decisions made to September ... 2014 The latest Government figures on sanctions show that, since December 2012 the DWP has issued 54,665 sanctions to ...
High Court rules arrangements for helping blind voters are unlawful and parody of the electoral process
07 May 2019 | News
The High Court has given a damning judgment on the Government’s current arrangements for blind and partially sighted voters, declaring them unlawful and describing them as being “a parody of the electoral ...
State of Care for people with autism, learning difficulties and poor mental health 'worrying' says DRUK
14 October 2019 | News
Care provision for people with poor mental health, autism and learning disabilities is failing nationally. These are the key ... can’t get access to the right care at the right time and services are struggling to cope with increased demand... ...
12 Days:Heart-breaking documentary on psychiatric care where 4 judges decide who leaves and who stays
22 February 2018 | News
Every year in France, 92,000 people are placed under psychiatric care ... primarily on these public hearings, renowned filmmaker and photographer Raymond Depardon captures the raw and vulnerable interactions at the border of justice and ...
Z2K launch survey on where social security assessment process isn’t working and what needs to change
14 April 2021 | News
... (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) is an anti-poverty charity that combines direct help for people with national campaigning to ... system that works. It believes that a secure income and stable housing are key to preventing homelessness and improving life chances for people and their families. ...
Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are under-resourced to the point of refusing patients
07 April 2022 | News
Children and adolescents are frequently being denied support by the under-funded CAMHS service. Stem4, ... survey shows that while CAMHS was struggling before the pandemic, post-COVID it has not been able to recover from the ...
Disabled Activists Host Sit-In Outside Parliament After They Were Refused Entry To Meet With MPs
03 September 2024 | News
... Disabled activists arrived to deliver books detailing the damning role the DWP played in the deaths of ... the pre-arranged audience with MPs. They hosted a sit-in and protest outside Portcullis House until the books were ... about how the day's events went. John Pring, the editor and founder of Disability News Service, recently released ...