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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
IntoWork Convention 2014
18 September 2014 | News
The IntoWork Convention 2014 brought together a wide variety of people involved in helping people find work, keep work and progress in work Over two days engaging debates and discussion promoted learning about current and future ...
Benefits in hospital
23 April 2025 | Resource
This resource outlines how a stay in hospital can affect your benefit ... detail which benefits are affected by a stay in hospital and list those which are not. Revised and updated: 22nd April 2025 Contents What is a day in ...
A message from our CEO: building a movement for change
14 December 2021 | News
... difficult year for many Disabled people. Our lives have continued to be dominated by COVID and its devastating consequences. We are acutely conscious ... lives. We continue to speak out strongly on these issues to Government, Parliament, businesses and the media. ...
New EHRC report urges benefit review to ensure adequate standard of living
13 March 2018 | News
The cumulative impact of tax and welfare reforms This new Equality and Human Rights Commission report seeks to answer: how much per year individuals and households are expected to lose as a result ... For further information on welfare rights, education issues and social care you will find our factsheets/guides ...
Govt to review local welfare assistance funding
15 September 2014 | News
R(Christopher Jump) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government ... challenge to the Government’s decision to cease grant funding for Local Welfare Assistance Schemes. Currently your ...