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Charging for residential accommodation
07 October 2022 | Resource
The Care Act 2014 introduced a single legal framework for charging for care and support and financial assessments in England. This is a ... new legislation aims at making charging fairer and more clearly understood by everyone. If the local authority decides ...
New report on tackling the disability employment gap
10 March 2016 | News
Closing the gap: Creating a framework for tackling the disability employment gap in the UK. Halving the ... out a range of principles for how reform should progress and a number of areas where specific reforms should be ...
Assessment process for carers under the Care Act
15 April 2025 | Resource
Contents The Care Act – Carers’ rights The meaning of ‘carer’ Young Carers & Parents Carers Local ... Receiving council support Support Planning Process Charging and Financial Assessment Further information The Care Act ... new changes to the current social care system in England. One of these changes is the concept of ‘meeting ...
Disability Discrimination Win
20 June 2013 | News
East Kilbride schoolboy wins landmark disability discrimination tribunal A disabled ... will now be able to take guitar lessons after winning a landmark disability discrimination tribunal . In the first ...
Bill of Rights threatens EU membership
16 July 2014 | News
Plans to introduce a British Bill of Rights which means that ... rights risks the UK's expulsion from the Council of Europe and could even threaten Britain's membership of EU. The proposed Bill which would mean ...
Care Act resource page
11 November 2014 | News
... produced a resource page of Acts, regulations, guidance and information on what this means to you . The resource will be updated as we get more information. If there are any resopurces you know of which ...
Our PIP claiming guide has been updated
16 October 2014 | News
Our very popular guide to claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has been updated The updates ... changes to: the PIP implementation timetable the PIP and DLA helpline numbers You can download the latest version ...
PIP assessment guide updated
28 May 2014 | News
Personal Independence Payment assessment guide for assessment providers The guidance is intended to supplement the contract documents agreed with ... for health professionals carrying out assessment activity and for those responsible for the quality of assessments. ...
We want your views on our personal budgets helpline
02 May 2018 | News
We would like to invite you to take an online survey about the Disability ... helpline. Go to survey The questions will help us to understand how effective the helpline has been in providing ... The questionnaire will take 5 - 10 minutes to complete and is completely anonymous. Thank you for your co-operation ...
Keeping track of the UK's actions on human rights
08 April 2018 | News
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is developing a web-based tool to track progress on the UK’s international human rights obligations. They have produced a ...