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Social care sector unites in condemning Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill
07 February 2019 | News
Human rights reform outrage – social care sector unites in open letter to Ministers criticising careless Mental ... care sector organisations have come together to unite and sign an open letter to the Minister of State for Social Care, Caroline Dinenage MP, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health ...
BBC highlights unfair PIP cut for disabled people in hospital
02 November 2022 | News
Thousands of Disabled people have had their benefits paused during extended hospital stays, under a rule charities say ... in the introduction of regulations removing the 84-day and 28 day payment limits for disability Living Allowance ...
Government accepts most of the PIP review recommendations in full
07 January 2018 | News
The Department for Work and Pensions appointed Paul Gray CB to undertake the two reviews Personal ... recommendations were that: The Department simplify and better co-ordinate communication products to provide a ...
National Apprenticeship Week 2018 – what’s on offer in the NHS?
04 March 2018 | News
It’s National Apprenticeship Week from 5-9 March 2018, and the NHS is keen to highlight the broad range of ... Did you know there are around 350 different careers in the NHS? It takes a lot of different people with various skills to keep the NHS running, and you might be surprised at the wide range of roles and ...
Jodey Whiting Family Given Permission to Apply for Second Inquest
12 November 2020 | News
The application for a new inquest will be made to the High Court within the next six ... submitted about the effect on her of a Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) decision to halt the benefits on which ... of her application included an investigation into the handling of Jodey’s benefits by the DWP and a report from ...
Our response to the halving the disability employment gap inquiry
10 May 2016 | News
... employment gap. Their ambition was the subject of an inquiry by the Work and Pensions Select Committee chaired by the Labour MP Frank ... in the economy. However we do support the commitment and have identified the elements of a strategy and have also ...
Two Board Meetings in three days for our Hertfordshire Champion!
15 June 2017 | News
Our Champion for I Can Make It in Hertfordshire, Bethany Young, participated in two ... Council in the space of 72 hours. Along with our Research and Engagement Officer Anna Denham, on Tuesday 13 th June ... council, to seek the council’s adoption of I Can Make It and its approach of using social value to open up new job ...
DR UK says sign the petition to increase disability benefits
26 April 2020 | News
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government ... emergency increase of £20 a week for both Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits. Although DR UK welcomes this ... April 2020 survey of over 200 disabled people which found nearly all (95%) had seen an increase in their costs as a ...
Experiences of Personal Independence Payment on people with sensory impairments
03 February 2016 | News
Researchers at NatCen Social Research are currently working on a project about the experiences of people with vision impairment and people with combined hearing and sight loss who have been claiming Disability Living ...
Making Community: The Wider Role of Makerspaces in Public Life
16 December 2015 | News
This paper has been selected for the CHI (computer human interface) 2016 Papers and Notes Program. View research paper Authors: Nick Taylor, ... DJCAD, University of Dundee - Ursula Hurley, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford - Philip Connolly, ...