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NPC Report Launched: What do People Want The Government To Do About the Environmental Crisis?
25 September 2023 | News
... cross-sector group of charities have released five new briefings with findings from deliberation groups and surveys with over 750 people asking them how they want charities and government to respond to the climate and nature ...
Low-traffic schemes overlook Disabled people’s needs
27 April 2021 | News
... do not consider the needs of Disabled people when implementing low-traffic neighbourhoods according to Disabled ... residents who say the schemes increase journey times and leave Disabled people no alternative but to use cars. In ... journey times led to him arriving at school wet, distressed and confused. The local Council, Islington, is refusing to ...
First meeting of Get Yourself Active
04 May 2015 | News
The Get Yourself Active project is gaining countrywide support from a number of interested ... the new national steering group The project aims to create and develop opportunities for people to use their personal budgets to access physical activity and sport. The first meeting took place on 23 rd April and ...
DBC open letter to Government on ESA cut
25 January 2016 | News
National charities and Peers sign Open Letter calling on Government to stop £30-a-week ESA cut Original text ... the DBC website Ahead of a key vote on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill next week in the House of Lords, over 30 ...
Scottish disabled student access report
01 June 2014 | News
Planning improvements for disabled pupils' access to education - ... consultation on draft guidance on the Disability Strategies and Pupils' Educational Records (Scotland) Act 2002 ("the 2002 Act"). The 2002 Act contains duties ...
Active Lives Report – Disabled people continue to lose out
27 October 2021 | News
Last week, Sport England , the arms-length body of government responsible for growing and developing grassroots sport and getting more people ...
Number of DWP disability employment advisers falls by a third during the pandemic
05 April 2021 | News
The DWP is facing questions over its commitment to disability equality ... Employment Advisers (DEAs) fell sharply during the pandemic, while the number of mainstream Work Coaches soared. ... pledge to recruit 13,500 new Work Coaches to deal with the pandemic unemployment crisis. This means that the number of ...
Second secret DWP benefit death report could open door for bereaved families
31 January 2021 | News
Ministers appear close to defeat in their six-year battle to prevent the release of secret reports into the suicides and other deaths of benefit claimants, after the release of ... who starved to death in June 2018 after his employment and ESA and other benefits were wrongly removed, have been ...
Race report criticism continues to grow as UN joins the condemnation
21 April 2021 | News
... race report attempts to “normalise white supremacy” and could “fuel racism” in the UK. The UN Working Group of Experts on People of ... “strongly rejected” the Government’s “stunning” and “reprehensible” report, arguing it “repackages ...
Families struggling as child costs rise
18 August 2013 | News
Child Poverty Action Group release 'The Cost of a Child in 2013' report Families are struggling as the cost of bringing up a child and meet their minimum needs has risen to £148,000 - around ... while average earnings rose by 1.5%, benefits for families and children by just 1%, and child benefit did not rise at ...