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DWP says that it has no PIP reconsideration refusal target
15 May 2017 | News
Following our news article on targets for refusing benefit ... UK to say that its Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of 80% mandatory reconsideration refusals does not include PIP. The DWP says that it has no performance indicator for PIP mandatory reconsiderations. While PIP is excluded from its ...
Government delays critical social care meeting
23 June 2021 | News
A meeting to hash out social care policy between Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock scheduled for Tuesday of this week was ... said: “Social care has been on its knees for years, and the increased pressures of the pandemic brought it home ...
Funding where care commissioning changes
02 October 2014 | News
The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) is advising councils that they cannot significantly change ... not reduce the amount they pay for care home placements, and leave families to find the difference, where there are ... their resources when planning how they commission services, and many are experiencing particular pressure in adult care, ...
We're Recruiting!
30 October 2023 | News
We’re Recruiting – Data & Insight Officer Disability Rights UK (DR UK) ... excited to recruit a Data & Insight Officer. The chosen candidate will join DR UK at an exciting time for us. In ... Rights UK towards our aim of becoming a data informed and driven organisation. The job description and person ...
People of Bristol please listen out for our I Can Make It Champion!
11 April 2017 | News
... On Monday the 10 th of April our Champion for I Can Make It in Bristol, Charlotte White went to BCFM ’s studios to pre-record a radio programme to introduce I Can Make It and talk about employment for a show hosted by Disability Rights UK organisational member, West of England Centre for Inclusive Living (WECIL). If you would ...
Education factsheet updates
29 November 2023 | News
The following Education factsheets have now been updated... Funding ... are studying at further education (FE) level. Careers and Work for Disabled People This factsheet provides ... information on disability, rights under the Equality Act, and the funding and support available to access ...
A hundred people die fighting for terminal illness benefits
07 November 2021 | News
... 100 people denied fast-tracked disability benefits for terminal illness died challenging the decision, bbc.co.uk has ... recognise when a claimant was approaching the end of life and was in desperate need of support". Dr Sam Royston, its director of policy and research, said if people died before their appeals were ...
Child residence tests breach human rights
29 June 2014 | News
... tests breach their rights, says Human Rights Committee In their new Report the Joint Committee on Human Rights ... children with special educational needs or disabilities, and section 17 and 20 Children Act 1989 cases. For more information go to ...
Giving birth to purple culture
03 June 2015 | News
There is a culture to all politics and at its best the culture of disability politics has been angry, stirring, passionate and liberating but at its worst it has been patronizing, ...
The “Paulley Principle”: A DR UK ambassador’s view
18 January 2017 | News
In his new blog Stephen Brookes MBE, DR UK ambassador and ... disabled people in planning public service vehicle design and service provision as, unless or until a specific change ...