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Leonard Cheshire launches campaign for better use of language around disability
27 April 2021 | News
... has launched a new campaign around the use of language relating to Disabled people. A list of appropriate and inappropriate terms for Disabled people suggests saying ... talking to people with disabilities is rife in the UK… Nearly three quarters of disabled people - of which there are ...
ODI looking for new people for Regional Stakeholder Network
08 April 2019 | News
The Office for Disability Issues is seeking people to join the new Regional Stakeholder Network in 9 regional groups across England. Find out more Following requests from disabled ...
Labour cumulative assessment motion fails
10 July 2013 | News
Yesterday's motion demanding a cumulative impact assessment of the effect of ... clean on the effects of their policies on disabled people and those who provide care and yesterday debated the ...
DWP to appeal Fife bedroom tax decisions
23 September 2013 | News
The DWP has issued an urgent bulletin - HB U6/2013 – announcing its intention to appeal two ... cases resulted in findings that rooms designated by the landlord as bedrooms were not capable of being such for the ... determined that the rooms did not satisfy the “space standard” as set out in section 326 of the Housing Act 1985 ...
The Covid Inquiry
22 February 2023 | News
The Covid Inquiry has finally started undertaking its preliminary ... who died of Covid were Disabled. Disabled people were abandoned without home care visits, deprioritised for medical attention, not given adequate access to food and vaccines, could not secure Personal Assistants (PAs) or ...
Preparing for an Appeal Tribunal
07 October 2022 | Event
Aimed at professionals who work in advice or advocacy. Part 1: Assessing the case, reviewing the DWP decision - Thursday 17 ... members. After booking you will receive a Zoom link and supporting materials by email. Preparing for an Appeal ...
End of life charity Marie Curie report shows 300 people die in poverty every day in the UK
12 November 2024 | News
Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity have released a report which shows ... years. Titled “Dying in Poverty 2024 Exploring poverty and fuel poverty at the end of life in the UK” The report ... each year, which equates to one in four working age people and one in six pensioners – an increase from one in eight ...
Keep the £20 per week UC uplift for another year “at the very least” says Work and Pensions Committee
08 February 2021 | News
A new report from the Work and Pensions Committee of MPs notes that since March 2020 the number of people claiming UC has doubled ... six million, while job vacancies remain far below pre-pandemic levels. Given this, the MPs warn that removing the ...
Joint open letter from over 50 charities urges Chancellor to keep and expand the £20 week Universal Credit lifeline
29 September 2020 | News
... Chancellor to urge him to make the temporary £20 per week increase to the standard allowance of Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit permanent from April 2020, as well as ...
IntoWork Convention 2017
23 August 2017 | News
The Learning and Work Institute IntoWork Convention 2017 theme for this year was ... aimed to address how we respond to the changing funding and delivery landscape we face and what we need to do to ...