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Video and telephone welfare benefit appeal hearings and Disabled people: new research
05 December 2021 | News
Over the summer of 2021, Islington Peoples Rights (IPR) carried out research with ... Disabled people at tribunals held by phone or video, and a small number of Disabled people who had challenged ... choice of format, including a face-to-face hearing. Among problems identified with remote hearings include: Problems ...
Report highlights issue of negativity towards Disabled people
26 July 2022 | News
Nearly 75% of Disabled people have experienced negative attitudes or behaviour – including verbal and physical abuse – in the last five years, research by ...
DWP issues staff guidance on suicide risk-management
23 August 2015 | News
... risk-management to its Glasgow call-centre workers, according to the Sunday Herald. The guidance is meant to help ... manager is then meant to rush over to listen in to the call and workers must “make some assessment on the degree of ... For more information see our Universal Credit factsheet DWP issues staff guidance on suicide risk-management ...
New Report Finds People Struggle To Share Experiences of Health and Social Care
13 March 2024 | News
People are more likely to feedback about commercial services and products than their experiences of health and social care, according to new research by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and ... social care staff identify and tackle safety and quality issues. But these findings make clear that some people do ...
Locked Down and Abandoned: Disabled People’s Experiences of Covid-19: new Inclusion London research report
11 February 2021 | News
Inclusion London has published its second report based on research gathered about the first, second and third lockdowns. The report describes how Disabled ... poverty, financial difficulties, workplace discrimination, problems accessing healthcare, and unequal access to ...
Safeguarding vulnerable claimants: Work and Pensions Committee launches new inquiry
26 July 2023 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee of MPs is to examine how the DWP supports vulnerable benefit claimants and ... looking to hear from people with lived experiences of these issues and will also hold an event with claimants with ...
STUC attacks fall in DEA and Jobcentre numbers
20 August 2015 | News
A Freedom of Information request by the Scottish Trade Union Congress ... fall in the number of Disability Employment Advisers (DEAs) and Jobcentres. STUC General Secretary, Grahame Smith, said: ... into Work @ www.stuc.org.uk STUC attacks fall in DEA and Jobcentre numbers ...
Strategic partner updates for July 2013
25 July 2013 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner to ... England and Public Health England Disability Rights UK continue to focus on taking user-driven commissioning into the ... of their lives. Detailed analysis of these reforms and the problems they address is available in the ‘Universal ...
The Disability Poverty Campaign Group call for collaboration on the new childhood poverty taskforce
29 July 2024 | News
Sir Keir Starmer recently appointed Bridget Phillipson the education secretary and Liz Kendall, work and pensions secretary, to head up a ... to ignorance and misunderstanding. We can remove those issues, and work to give them all they deserve if given the ...
Strategic partner updates for January 2014
14 January 2014 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner to ... ombudsman for England. Establishing a 1-stop-shop for problems or complaints will make it easier for the public to ... working together in an integrated way to tackled several issues in order to address a need identified in the local ...