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I Can Make It keeps rolling during the winter months
08 December 2016 | News
December: a time for relaxing, thinking about how to enjoy/survive Christmas and winding down. Not if you’re a campaigner (amongst ... jobs) though. Instead it’s a time for keeping up momentum and setting the scene for the New Year! On Tuesday we had a ...
Your epilepsy, your benefits
18 August 2013 | News
Free benefits information days for people with epilepsy Are you confused ... what the changes to benefits mean for you? Epilepsy Action and Epilepsy Society are working together to host two free information days, in London on 1 October 2013 and in Manchester on 5 October 2013, about the recent ...
Tackling Barriers for Disabled Apprentices
30 March 2015 | News
... the conclusion of its London Apprenticeship Project by sharing the key learning achieved at its Tackling Barriers for ... of the event was engage with Employers, training providers and other organisations dedicated to supported disabled individuals and highlight the barriers encountered. The event succeeded ...
Sign up to Get Yourself Active's Webinar
16 May 2019 | News
Join Get Yourself Active on Wednesday 5th June, 2pm-3pm to ... to be an overview of the Get Yourself Active programme and its evaluation report covering the last four years. The ... into three sections which reflect the evaluation report and the three strands of Get Yourself Active's work: the ...
Adult social care entering a ‘perfect storm’ says ADASS
06 November 2016 | News
Adult social care is entering a ‘perfect storm’ which is impacting on vulnerable people who are getting less help and whose need for care won’t stop, according to new ... of almost £0.5 billion, further closures of residential and nursing homes and increased handing back of contracts, ...
We demand proactive EHRC on disability rights
11 July 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK challenges the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to raise its game on ... the EHRC to raise its game on disabled people's equality in Britain. We have a public narrative that paints disabled ... likely than other citizens to miss out on education, skills and work, and having much less choice over our day to day ...
Shielding MPs allowed to ‘question’ but no longer vote
02 June 2020 | News
... Parliament to vote after an amendment to extend remote voting during the Coronavirus crisis was defeated. MPs from all ... being discriminatory for those MPs who still had to shield, and those who wished to minimise travel and the risk of returning from London to their communities ...
TLAP Care Act survey results published
03 July 2017 | News
TLAP Care Act survey for people with care and support needs, and carers View survey results and easy read The TLAP (Think Local Act Personal) Care Act survey explored the impact ...
Disabled People Left on the Slow Line
01 January 2020 | News
... long will it be before disabled people can travel on any train? It's not going to happen anytime soon even though the rail industry has had ten years and arguably 25 years since the original Disability ... that almost all train operating companies have applied and been granted train accessibility exemption. Even ...
Two-thirds of workers with long covid treated unfairly by employers
28 March 2023 | News
New research by the Trade Union Congress has found that One in seven workers reported losing their job because of ... one in six (16 per cent) who had been subject to bullying and/or harassment at work, and one in 13 (8 per cent) told the TUC they had been ...