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Govt rejects Equal Lives plea for investigation into Norfolk Council Care Act breaches
20 April 2016 | News
Care minister Alistair Burt dismisses user-group’s request for a CQC probe into Norfolk Council’s adult social care department. Read ... this year because: eligibility thresholds had been raised and care package reviews were being used to reduce, or ...
Prescription Charges Coalition e-action on long-term health conditions
05 April 2016 | News
As prescription charges in England rise once more, the Prescription Charges ... e-action The Prescription Charges Coalition is a group of nearly 40 organisations campaigning to end unfair ...
London DPO calls on Mayoral candidates to commit to fair ULEZ charges
27 April 2021 | News
Action Disability Kensington and Chelsea (ADKC) has issued an Open Letter requesting all the London Mayoral candidates commit to providing the same reasonable ...
Volunteer charter launched
09 December 2014 | News
Disability Rights UK has been working with Community Service Volunteers and the Disability Action Alliance to produce a Charter to ... to disabled people who want to volunteer including such issues as transport and attitudes towards disabled people. ...
Two-thirds of frontline DWP staff don’t have enough time to handle safeguarding concerns carefully and correctly
21 June 2024 | News
Two-thirds of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff still do not have enough time to deal with safeguarding concerns “carefully” and “correctly” despite ... survey was completed by more than 1,700 DWP staff, of whom nearly 1,400 have direct contact with claimants. It was ...
Anger over NHS Trust disabled parking fees
10 August 2015 | News
... 1 September, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Pinderfields, Dewsbury and Pontefract Hospitals, will charge blue badge holders up ... effect. "The lack of funding in the NHS is a national issue and is going to need a national solution and I do not think ...
High Court rules Access to Work cap is not unlawful
19 August 2018 | News
... R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2018] Read judgment David Buxton’s press ... was brought by Mr David Buxton, who was deaf. The two key issues heard were related to the public sector equality duty and indirect discrimination, in particular the ...
Prescription Charges Coalition meets with Lord Prior
30 May 2016 | News
... charge medical exemption list. Read more about the meeting Raise this issue online with your MP Disability Rights ... Health, Parkinson’s, Motor Neurone Disease, HIV and AIDS, Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, and Heart Disease. The Prescription ...
CPAG takes legal action against DWP for disabled claimants arrears
23 April 2018 | News
Child Poverty Action Group is legally challenging the DWP’s decision to limit backdated payments for ... when they were moved from Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowance. Read more CPAG argues that the ... full. For further information on welfare rights, education issues and social care you will find our factsheets/guides ...
NHS hospitals fail to investigate most deaths of inpatients with learning disabilities
20 December 2015 | News
Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, is facing calls for a nationwide inquiry into the deaths of highly ... that just one in seven such fatalities in hospitals in England have been investigated. Data released to the Guardian ... freedom of information laws show that hospitals in England have investigated just 209 out of 1,436 deaths of ...