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People with Learning Disabilities to remain outside of group six vaccinations
22 February 2021 | News
UPDATE: The Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations has ... learning disabilities. But Charities including DR UK and Mencap have called on Government to include all people ...
Disability Unit fails to provide adequate offline consultation help
26 January 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK is seeking urgent clarification from the government’s Disability ... views on the forthcoming Strategy have had to be cancelled, and online events by the Government have been limited and poorly advertised. While Disabled People’s ...
Over a quarter of students unable to access uni learning
08 September 2020 | News
27% of university students were unable to access online learning during the Covid-19 lockdown, according to NUS ... in The Guardian which suggests that disabled students and those from poorer backgrounds were worst affected. The ... that the main barriers to study were a lack of IT equipment and software, insufficient course materials, and poor ...
Managed Migration to Universal Credit webinar
24 March 2023 | News
... The DWP will start the process of managed migration by moving tax credit claimants onto UC, before moving remaining ... are not worse off at the point that they move onto UC, and the way in which transitional protection works once ... at CPAG. Mark Willis, welfare rights adviser at CPAG Scotland. Will Hadwen, trainer for CPAG and author of the ...
Thousands struggle to buy food
02 April 2020 | News
There are growing concerns that people with specific medical conditions ... delivery scheme. Sight loss charities are asking that blind and partially sighted people have access to the scheme. ... now actively considering how the scheme could be extended and improved. Fazilet Hadi said: “We welcome the ...
DR UK condemns Philip Hammond's comments on disabled people's productivity
06 December 2017 | News
... Committee Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond MP, in answer to a question about the cause of poor productivity ... including higher participation by marginal groups and very high levels of engagement in the workforce, for ... Mallick said: ‘This is an extraordinary comment to make and an insult to the hundreds of thousands of hard working ...
No more avoidable deaths: hospitals must be safe places for disabled people
12 September 2018 | News
Today, on world sepsis day, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has published a case about an avoidable death from sepsis which happened at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. View case ... press release A disabled young woman died from sepsis following a urinary tract infection and her mother brought a ...
Pandemic has made many doctors less willing to attempt CPR, study finds
26 July 2022 | News
Doctors appear to be more willing to withhold resuscitation from very sick or frail patients since Covid – and have raised the threshold for referral to intensive ... their acute illness. However, the study suggests that the pandemic has not changed doctors views on euthanasia and ...
Council cuts affect sustainability
06 June 2013 | News
The Public Accounts Committee 3rd Report of this Session examines the financial sustainability of local authorities This ... over a quarter in real terms (£7.6 billion) between 2011 and 2015. The Department for Communities and Local Government is reforming the business rates and ...
Appeal granted against court judgment excluding disabled students from universal credit
17 August 2022 | News
In January 2022, the High Court dismissed a judicial review ... UC until he first underwent a work capability assessment and established a limited capability for work. However, ... to appeal the High Court judgment has now been granted and the case will be heard by the Court of Appeal. In 2020, ...