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PIP stats show broken system
04 June 2014 | News
The Personal Independence Payment statistics issued today show that the ... current situation is causing financial hardship, despair and frustration to nearly 300,000 disabled people. Disability Rights UK demands ...
Disability Rights UK’s Position on Assisted Dying
12 November 2024 | News
... live well. This is not the case at present. Disabled people and those with health conditions find ourselves battling to get NHS treatments, receiving inadequate care and support and having limited access to palliative care. ...
Our response to the JCHR on the rights implications of Brexit
10 October 2016 | News
The Joint Committee on Human Rights launched an inquiry into the ... 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights - Privacy and family life, which protects EU nationals living in the ... For example, if current residence rights are not respected, issues could arise where EU nationals are married to British ...
Keep and extend the £20 week Universal Credit uplift or otherwise push up poverty, says the Resolution Foundation
17 January 2021 | News
... keep the uplift to Universal Credit (UC) won’t just determine whether millions of households are able to enjoy a living standards recovery this year. It could also determine whether ... extra costs due to the pandemic? The answer is clearly yes - so the £20 UC uplift mist be kept and extended ...
£20 week Universal Credit cut likely to lead to poorer mental health and wellbeing for thousands of families
12 September 2021 | News
... warned that a planned £20 per week cut to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit, due at the beginning of October, is likely to lead to poorer mental health and wellbeing for thousands of families. And will have the ...
UK's Chief Medical Officers publish the first-ever guidelines on physical activity for disabled children and young people
16 February 2022 | News
... physical activity levels, will support disabled children and young people to improve their physical and mental health throughout their lives. Brett Smith, ... of Research, Professor of Disability and Physical Activity in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham ...
New £500 Test and Trace Support payment for people claiming qualifying benefits who are required to self-isolate
20 September 2020 | News
The government has announced a £500 Test and Trace Support payment for people in England claiming qualifying benefits or working tax credit who ...
CQC says care system for patients with mental ill health, autism and learning disabilities not fit for purpose
20 May 2019 | News
An interim review by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) into the use of restraint, segregation and prolonged seclusion in the health and care sector concludes that the current system as “not ...
Public Accounts Committee PIP transcript
24 March 2014 | News
... Committee held an evidence session for the Committee’s inquiry into PIP on Thursday 20 March. The session explored the issues raised in the National Audit Office report into ...
Care Quality Commission Mental Health Dormitory Survey
24 October 2017 | News
CQC's State of Care in Mental Health Services Report 2014/2017 found that a ... is unsupportive of people’s privacy or dignity and can make protecting these particularly challenging for staff and patients. CQC are running a survey to gain insight ...