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Disabled leaseholders win court victory over home adaptations
30 January 2019 | News
The Cardiff County Court has ruled that a landlord acted unlawfully by refusing to allow a disabled homeowner to make necessary ... has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which restricts her mobility, and needed to make adaptations to her home to accommodate ...
150,000 complaints made against Atos
17 October 2013 | News
Figures obtained by Sky News reveal that Citizens Advice has been ... Government. Citizens Advise warns that genuinely disabled and seriously ill people are being stripped of benefits ... its job properly, failing to give taxpayers value for money and worst of all, failing thousands of sick and disabled ...
Scots parliament considers bedroom tax petition
25 June 2013 | News
... to the Welfare Reform Committee for full consideration and discussion. “GLC believes that this is a positive step forward in the 'No evictions for bedroom tax' campaign in Scotland. Today's development will enable the case for ...
Disability employment gap ‘worse’ since Covid
27 July 2021 | News
... to be furloughed or be given reduced work hours. Speaking at Nuneaton Signs in Warwickshire, she said: "We’re ... even during the unprecedented challenge [of Covid”]… and that “the disability employment gap has closed ... needs to stop tinkering around the edges of statistics and make meaningful changes for Disabled people to have true ...
Scottish Govt must mitigate bedroom tax effects
19 May 2014 | News
... publishes its report: The Impact of the Bedroom Tax in Scotland: devolving the DHP (Discretionary Housing ... all the financial impact of the bedroom tax, both past and present, on tenants in Scotland. The Committee also ...
Disability emojis on the way
06 February 2019 | News
... emojis to be released later this year. Read more in the Belfast Telegraph Icons showing hearing aids, wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs and guide dogs are among the latest set of approved images ... from the Unicode Consortium, the body which maintains and regulates the library of characters. Comments we are ...
DR UK Trustee Sophie Maziere at the National Para Swimming Championships
11 January 2017 | News
... DR UK at the first day of the National Para Swimming Championships at Manchester Aquatics Centre. Read more ... fantastic example of participation in sport, of achievement and sheer hard work. One of DR UK’s key priorities for ... people to be active in any way that is right for you and to choose, if you wish, to use your personal budget to ...
DR UK welcomes the Govt review of 1.6 million PIP cases but...
29 January 2018 | News
Commenting on the announcement of the review into 1.6 million PIP ... people have lost out because of changeover from DLA to PIP, and we welcome the announcement that the government is going ... yet more assessments. “This review highlights the ongoing and persistent failures of the assessment process, which is ...
Notts Council cuts breached Care Act - Ombudsman
27 January 2020 | News
Nottinghamshire County Council breached the Care Act by cutting ... local authority has completely lost the ability to be human and treat its citizens with dignity and respect." Notts Council cuts breached Care Act - ...
Availability of home visits as more jobcentres to close
30 January 2017 | News
... jobcentres. Dr Lisa Cameron (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) (SNP) As chair of the all-party ... group for disability, I am extremely worried that closing jobcentres will make employment even less accessible to ... person—not online or by post—be afforded to that group, and will home visits be afforded to all disabled ...