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Accessibily concerns over new taxi Uber App
15 June 2014 | News
Sir Bert Massie CBE has raised concerns about introduction of the Uber App in London for private hire ... Massie CBE, has worked in the charity sector for 40 years and, in 2007, was created a Knight for his services to ... their vehicles are accessible to wheelchair users. I clearly have an interest in ensuring that there continues to ...
‘Waking watch’ charges hit Disabled residents
17 August 2021 | News
Shocking numbers of leaseholders are having to invest in ... leaseholders ourselves, we share the enormous financial and emotional pressure placed on us by the building safety ... in every general needs housing development in the UK? Clearly not. So this haphazard and misguided advice needs to ...
Disabled students suffer under austerity measures
30 March 2015 | News
New TUC report finds that disabled education workers and students are ... under austerity measures The report, Disabled Workers and Students in Education, says that Government reforms and ...
Legal challenge to essential care charges
12 July 2020 | News
... Review of Norfolk County Council’s policy of charging people for essential care and support. The 24 year-old claimant, SH, and her mother and litigation friend, MH, are part of a ...
Universal Credit case studies wanted
27 May 2015 | News
Nine Lives Media are making another Channel 4 Dispatches about benefit changes, and are focussing on how people who are in work and on benefits are being affected They are looking for case ...
McDonald case helps care plan disputes
19 May 2014 | News
... to consider dignity can be a breach of human rights Today in its ruling on the Mcdonald case (for background see ... care package without any reassessment between November 2008 and November 2009 was a breach of Article 8 and accordingly awarded her damages and costs. Although the ...
Disability Confident roadshow tours Britain
20 November 2013 | News
From today, the Department for Work and Pensions has launched a series of conferences across the country aimed at showcasing the talents of the 6.9 million disabled people of working-age in Great Britain and highlighting their huge value to the British economy. ...
Disabled women over 11 times more likely to die of Coronavirus
18 June 2020 | News
Disabled women with limiting disabilities aged under 65 are 11.3 times more likely to ... limiting disabilities are 6.5 times more likely to die, and a third of all lives lost to Coronavirus in the UK have ... compared to 35.6 deaths per 100,000. The figures are nearly three times higher for disabled men with significant ...
Work Programme only helps 10 per cent ESA cases
19 June 2013 | News
... Performance Report is designed to provide statistical information on the performance of the Work Programme. The ... Programme has had less success with those on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Overall, 10 per cent of those ... half of all young people who had been on the scheme for nearly two years have found work. This is the best performing ...
Leicester CIL create Get Yourself Active twitter feed
24 April 2016 | News
... campaign. Get Yourself Active a project which is all about finding ways to help you get active and feel physically and mentally well. The project is run by DR UK, funded by ...