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Tax Free Childcare consultation
04 August 2013 | News
This consultation seeks views on the government’s plans to introduce Tax-Free Childcare for working families and additional assistance with childcare for parents through ... interested parties to comment on the detailed design and operation of Tax-Free Childcare. It sets out the ...
House of Lords vote to criminalise domestic abuse by carers
10 March 2021 | News
Following an amazing debate initiated by Baroness Jane Campbell, ... of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The vote was 318 in favour and 234 against. Unfortunately, the Government continues to ... close personal connection with individual disabled people and their position of power. Baroness Campbell made a ...
DWP release benefit death peer reviews
15 May 2016 | News
Peer reviews indicate the need for better, more sensitive, handing of ... reviews do not establish a direct link between these deaths and the benefits claimed but many highlight flaws in the ...
DWP accused of blocking claimant suicide research
02 March 2022 | News
The DWP has faced repeated criticisms that it is blocking or burying politically unpalatable research by the ... whether benefit sanctions are linked to mental illness and suicide, increasing costs to the NHS, has been stopped and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been ...
Sacked mother of Disabled children wins tribunal
23 June 2021 | News
... nurse who was fired from her job as a nurse for not agreeing to work weekends has won a “landmark” ruling for working mothers after a judge said ... at an employment tribunal citing unfair dismissal and indirect sex discrimination. She has won an appeal ...
2019 LeDeR report is published
19 July 2020 | News
The latest version of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) report, covering ... by the University of Bristol. It makes for somber reading, and highlights the many health inequalities faced by people ... who died in 2019 died from an avoidable medical cause, and were twice as likely to as people in the general ...
Our Spring Statement 2019 Response
13 March 2019 | News
Disability Rights UK is disappointed with the Chancellor’s Spring Statement Philip ... when all individual government departments had to do so, and when “the Treasury’s own website permits direct ... response of Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director at Age UK and Co- chair of the Care and Support Alliance (CSA) who ...
Your chance to contribute to the NHS new equality standard for disabled staff
28 September 2016 | News
... be required to assess whether disabled staff face discrimination from 2018, as part of a new Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES), proposed by NHS England. View consultation Attend related consultation events ...
Clare Gray, 1969-2023
06 October 2023 | News
... to hear the news that Clare Gray, Disability advocate and activist, has passed away following a short illness. Clare worked tirelessly to promote disability rights, with nearly twenty years of this at Shaw Trust, most recently as ...
Over 450,000 excluded from state-funded care
19 December 2013 | News
Over 450,000 disabled and older people have been excluded from state-funded care ... to unofficially apply tougher eligibility tests, according to research commissioned by the Care and Support Alliance (CSA). The CSA is a consortium of over ...