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Benefit delivery: Committee publishes Government response
11 July 2016 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee has published the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) response to its report on Benefit ... took six months to respond to this report, the central point of which was about delivering the correct benefits on ...
Carers Allowance recipients to be exempt from benefit cap
25 January 2016 | News
Lord Freud announces government intention to exempt recipients of Carer’s Allowance from ... cap during yesterday’s Lords debate on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill Disability Rights UK welcomes the ... cap. This is a significant victory for disabled people and those who support us. The decision is informed by the ...
Sick Pay change blow for those with a PA
27 March 2014 | News
... be able to claim reimbursement for Statutory Sick Pay following the abolition of the Percentage Threshold Scheme (PTS). This will affect ‘care and support employers’ – those who take on a personal ... very concerned about this. They say: “We are disappointed and very surprised that there appears to have been no public ...
MPs say major reform of social care funding needed
30 March 2017 | News
Today the Communities and Local Government Select Committee has published its report into social care funding. Link to report The committee ... by councils. Care is being provided to fewer people and only to those with the highest needs. There is a high ...
Disability Rights UK is Recruiting!
29 April 2021 | News
We’re Recruiting – Get Yourself Active Communications Officer ... an experienced Communications Officer to join the Sport England funded Get Yourself Active programme. The chosen candidate will be joining a highly successful team that has ...
NHS England want patient representatives
04 August 2015 | News
NHS England are looking to recruit three or four public and patient representatives who would like to join their digital steering group with the aim of shaping and ...
Proposed Trade Bill threatens rights of disabled people
16 July 2018 | News
The Trade Bill is designed to incorporate 40 existing EU trade agreements signed with ... View bill View commons briefing Disability Rights UK and other organisations have sent a letter, expressing their ... As representatives of disabled people, businesses and campaigners for human rights and equality, we recognise ...
UN Committee Calls for UK Wide Strategy on Disability
24 August 2017 | News
... The call came at the end of two days of Committee hearings in Geneva into the UK Government’s implementation of the CRPD and the status and treatment of disabled people in the UK. Special ...
A 21st Century NHS
16 July 2015 | News
... the government’s vision for a patient-led, transparent and safer NHS Mr Hunt said that the NHS needed a profound culture change which puts power into the hands of the millions of patients who use the NHS every day, ...
MPs quiz Minister on smearing disabled people
10 December 2013 | News
... has prompted members of the select committee on work and pensions into calling the Secretary of State Iain Duncan Smith in for questioning on December 9 th over his officials and advisors role in the negative representation of disabled ...