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Disabled man’s body found six months after the DWP cut off his benefits
22 September 2022 | News
The body of a Disabled man was discovered by police officers in his derelict home six months after his benefits were cut off by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Disability News Service (DNS) ... DNS understands. E died sometime between October 2016 and early 2017, at the age of 43, but the safeguarding adults ...
Tottenham Hotspur: Supporting Disability History Month and leading the way in disability access and inclusion
23 November 2015 | News
... support for UK Disability History Month as part of its ongoing commitment to backing football’s equality and inclusion campaign, Kick It Out . In November 2014, the ... Disability Centre of Excellence, in partnership with Barnet and Southgate College, to provide specialist education ...
EASS helps in challenging travel insurance quote
27 April 2015 | News
Trying to arrange travel insurance for a holiday of a lifetime ... caller was planning a holiday of a lifetime with his family and had previously used the insurance company at a reasonable price. He decided to use the company again and disclosed that he has malignant melanoma more than once ...
Covid-19 Inquiry Told of Do-Not-Resuscitate Communication To People With Learning Disabilities
06 November 2024 | News
People with learning disabilities were told they wouldn’t be resuscitated ... has heard. Mencap’s Executive Director of Strategy and Influencing, Jackie O’Sullivan, shared with the ... ahead of its release. A Public Health England report in the early pandemic showed that adults with learning disabilities ...
Government to cut Rochdale housing association's £1m funding after Awaab Ishak's death
28 November 2022 | News
... from a respiratory condition caused by exposure to mould in his home. Awaab Ishak's father repeatedly raised the ... Coroner Joanne Kearsley said RBH were not "proactive" and asked: "How in the UK in 2020 does a two-year-old child ... Awaab's family said RBH needed to "stop being racist" and provide fair treatment to people moving to the UK. ...
Charging for support: a tax on disability and old age
30 April 2018 | News
In 2017 the Independent Living Strategy Group - an informal grouping of disability organisations and activists, chaired by Baroness Jane Campbell - put out a ... of a charge against their direct payment). This is a long-standing and much contentious issue. We are talking here, not ...
Government outlines work to improve aviation accessibility
03 April 2018 | News
The Government says it is considering a raft of new measures to work with the airline industry ... flying a more enjoyable experience for disabled passengers and those with reduced mobility. It comes as Britain's ... and the focus that is being given to improving operational issues and future design to ensure that they are no longer ...
New legal judgment will help some D/deaf people to qualify for PIP
30 September 2020 | News
... will enable some D/deaf people to score more daily living activity points so as to help gain entitlement to PIP. ... each need to remove their hearing aids to take a shower and to take a bath. Each cannot without the aids hear a ... a bath or shower due to having to remove their hearing aids and being unable to hear an alarm. Regulation 4(2A) of the ...
DR UK and Work Foundation peer support event
02 February 2016 | News
There is a growing body of evidence of the value of peer support for people ... living with long-term health conditions or disability, and particularly mental health conditions. Such support is ... together a range of subject experts to identify the key issues and discuss how we might take this forward. Speakers ...
Blueprint for fundamental welfare reform for ‘getting people back into work’
24 July 2024 | News
Speaking at the launch of a new report by the Pathways to Work Commission, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall set out the path for a new ... people have consistently highlighted a range of structural issues with the work capability assessment (WCA), including ...