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Over 28,000 people receiving home care died during pandemic
19 May 2021 | News
Over 25,000 people in England and over 3,000 people in Scotland who were ... ONS figures suggest that deaths in England increased by nearly 50% and in Scotland by around 70% between April last ...
County Council called upon to change chronic lack of accessibility
27 April 2021 | News
A Ramsgate man who suffered severe brain injuries in a random attack on a night out has launched a ... was injured in a brutal unprovoked attack in March 2018 and now uses a wheelchair. He has made a video showing just ...
National Audit Office publishes findings on NHS continuing healthcare
04 July 2017 | News
NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) is a package of care provided outside of hospital that is arranged and funded solely by the NHS for individuals who have ... for CHC funding, they may still be entitled to other health and social care services, some of which the individual may ...
Liz Sayce discusses hate crime on BBC World Tonight
27 July 2016 | News
... July Listen to broadcast on the BBC website . The report begins after 21.40 minutes. Our CEO Liz Sayce is interviewed ... hate crime is, often, still something which goes unreported and unnoticed. This can be because disabled people don’t ... When times are harder people often become more intolerant and pick on those who are different. Attacks on disabled ...
Government response to the CQC Mental Health Act Report
26 February 2018 | News
... would respond to the challenges raised by the CQC report and pending review into mental health care. Read Hansard The Care ... 2016/17 , looks at how providers are caring for patients, and whether patient’s rights are being protected. They ...
Face to face benefits appointments cancelled
17 March 2020 | News
Face-to-face assessments for all sickness and disability benefits have been suspended, effective 17 March 2020. The move is being taken to protect vulnerable people from unnecessary risk ... up in the ‘delay’ phase. It affects new claims for, and existing claimants of, Personal Independence Payment ...
Church of England calls for radical social care reform
26 January 2023 | News
England’s senior church leaders, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, have published a new report which asks for tax ... that could cost an extra £15bn a year. Their calls come in support of the one million older and Disabled people off ...
Universal Credit migration arrangements for severely disabled people ruled unlawful
07 May 2019 | News
... those who previously received the Severe Disability Premium and moved onto Universal Credit before 16 January 2019 are ... men, known as TP & AR, represented by Leigh Day Solicitors and a woman, known as SXC, also profoundly disabled, ... by Central England Law Centre. TP and AR argued in their legal case, heard in the High Court on 12 and 13 ...
Could you be a Fab Pioneer?
09 September 2015 | News
An invitation to all disabled people living in the city of ... invited to attend a FREE 2-day 'Fab Lab' course. Come and discover more about digital fabrication, 3D design and printing, and how this new technology might work for ...
DR UK VCSE Review response
04 March 2015 | News
Joint review of health and care sector investment in Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise organisations Response from Disability ...