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High Court dismisses legal challenge to Disabled student's exclusion from Universal Credit
09 February 2022 | News
The High Court has dismissed a judicial review brought against rules restricting Universal Credit (UC) to Disabled ... UC until he first underwent a work capability assessment and established a limited capability for work. Flinn receives the enhanced rate of both the mobility and daily living components of the PIP, but is having to use ...
Tory peer calls for UC uplift to be maintained
23 June 2021 | News
... Credit, has said that government should keep the uplifts introduced to the benefit during the pandemic. Former Minister David Freud told The Observer that ... time as Minister, he battled against “massive cuts” demanded by the Treasury and had considered resigning. He is ...
Light touch PIP reviews to be rolled out for disabled people of pension age
28 May 2019 | News
... they had reached State Pension age will receive an ongoing award with a light touch review at 10 years. Work and Pensions Secretary of State Amber Rudd announced in ... claimants above State Pension age in the coming months. Nearly 290,000 disabled people of State Pension age are in ...
Euro study damns UK disabled peoples job support
19 November 2014 | News
"LEAST GENEROUS" BRITAIN CUTS IN HALF JOB HELP TO DISABLED PEOPLE - NEW EUROPEAN ... Labour's Richard Howitt MEP told Parliament's Employment and Social Affairs Committee who commissioned the report ... "Access to Work" scheme in Britain were counterproductive and that the Conservative-led Government had halved the ...
Better Care Fund fails to deliver expected benefits for patients, the NHS or local authorities
07 February 2017 | News
Health and social care integration report. Read report The Better Care Fund (BCF) ... is a pooled budget that shifts resources into social care and community services for the benefit of the NHS and local ...
1000 Tweaks: Making Leicester a healthier place
22 August 2018 | News
Get Yourself Active and Leicester City Council are working together to see how we can make Leicester a healthier ... encourage individuals, families, organisations, places, and businesses to make a few small changes to their day to ...
Blind woman secures promises from government to provide accessible pandemic communications
24 March 2021 | News
A blind woman has won a legal case which secures fundamental ... to how the Government communicates with people during the pandemic. Sarah Leadbetter, who is registered blind, was due ... needs. These letters were inaccessible to Sarah and other people with visual impairments who cannot read ...
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 ...