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Court upholds policy limiting home care spending
11 August 2013 | News
... Council's "maximum expenditure policy" which, when introduced, will limit how much is spent on supporting a ... policy during its public consultation. It was felt that D, and other disabled people in Worcestershire, may be forced ... policy objectives of giving disabled individuals control and choice over their care support, encouraging disabled ...
DR UK says: Fix this broken system
23 August 2015 | News
... to fix a broken system Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith made a major speech today on the future of Employment and Support Allowance. Liz Sayce, spoke to the Independent ...
DR UK response to access to justice reforms
10 March 2019 | News
Disability Rights UK submission to the Justice Committee inquiry into the access to justice implications of HMCTS of ... the programme of reforms underway in Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), including the increasing use of digital and video technology and the closures of courts and tribunal ...
Access to Work Workplace Mental Health Support Service Webinar
26 February 2018 | News
Disability Rights UK and Remploy free webinar - March 28, 2018, 12.30pm T he Access to Work, ... the Workplace Mental Health Support Service (WMHSS), a free and confidential service delivered on behalf of Access to ...
Participants needed for research project examining how the benefits system has responded to Covid 19
08 June 2020 | News
Salford University working with University of Leeds, LSE and the University of Kent ... system nationally has responded to the Coronavirus pandemic. The “Welfare at a Social Distance project” aims ...
Liz Sayce gives Access to Work evidence to MPs
07 July 2014 | News
The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today held the first of four oral evidence sessions for its inquiry into Employment support for disabled people: Access ... Officer, ECDP (Essex Coalition of Disabled People) and former Chair of the Government’s Access to Work expert ...
No need to call DWP as part of the Universal Credit claims process
08 April 2020 | News
... call us - we’ll call you” approach for those claiming Universal Credit. Instead, a bolstered frontline team ... DWP says the move is designed to take some of the worry and frustration out of submitting a claim, while speeding it ... an end to long call wait times. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Therese Coffey said: “We are doing whatever ...
Liz Sayce attends Disability Employment Conference
17 July 2013 | News
Disability Employment Conference - Working Together This conference aims to bring business and government together at the start of a two year campaign ... co-hosted by the Minister for Disabled People, Esther McVey and Frank Gardner, BBC. Speakers include: Ashok Vaswani CEO ...
Fuel Poverty Awareness Day
14 February 2019 | News
... recognised day to raise awareness of fuel poverty and the importance of living in a warm and safe home. The day is coordinated by End Fuel Poverty ...
Care home gives residents less than ten hours' notice of closure
05 December 2021 | News
A short-staffed care home for people with learning disabilities in Kent gave families less than ten ... Kent looked after adults with severe learning difficulties and autism. Its operator decided five weeks ago it could no longer operate and told families they would have 28 days’ notice of the ...