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Disabled People Not Supported in Electoral Reforms, New Report Finds
21 March 2024 | News
... registration system for local government elections in England and UK General Elections, asking that an urgent ... up, Housing and Communities Select Committee found issues with the implementation of recent electoral ...
Little evidence to back up Universal Credit introduction - biggest welfare reform in 50 years
07 March 2018 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee publishes its assessment of reviews of Universal Credit, carried out by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA). Find out more ... For further information on welfare rights, education issues and social care you will find our factsheets/guides ...
General Election manifestos 2017
01 June 2017 | News
This page contains summaries of and a link to the main 2017 general election party ... care forthcoming green paper will also address system-wide issues to improve the quality of care and reduce variation ... someone with a disability, those with chronic mental health problems, and those who have been unemployed for over a ...
Lu's Story - Student, challenging University Accommodation decisions
06 March 2025 | News
Lu, student and helpline caller, tells her story of when she challenged ... in a news article about disabled students having similar problems to me. I argued that I shouldn’t have to pay any ...
DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’
27 June 2022 | News
The Government’s “failing” and “pseudo-scientific” benefits assessment system is increasing disability poverty and worsening claimants’ mental health, the Disability ...
I Can Make It has an exciting Wednesday in Manchester and London
06 April 2017 | News
Another week, another set of meetings for I Can Make It. All happening on one day; Wednesday ... involving I Can Make It Champions, along with our Policy and Development Manager Philip Connolly. In the morning Philip and three of our champions: Will Case, Andrew Tarpey and ...
Govt responds to Work and Pensions Committee Welfare to Work Inquiry
07 January 2016 | News
The Government has responded the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into DWP’s contracted welfare-to-work provision The Department’s main contracts (Work Programme and Work Choice) will expire in 2017, and DWP will begin a ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence publishes latest impact report
22 July 2019 | News
The report shows how NICE guidance might be making a difference in priority areas of adult social care. ... that is available, alongside information about outcomes and examples of their guidance being used in practice. It ... . Professor Gillian Leng, NICE’s Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Health and Social Care, has also published a ...
CQC review of how NHS trusts investigate and learn from deaths
24 July 2016 | News
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is looking at how NHS acute, community healthcare and mental health trusts investigate deaths and learn from their investigations. They also want to ...
Request your personal information from the Department for Work and Pensions
28 May 2018 | News
You have the right to get a copy of the information that is held about you. This is known as 'right ... need a record of the amounts (rates) of benefit you get and the dates you’re paid need a copy of your last fit ... they’ve sent you. If you’re claiming Universal Credit and have an online account, you can request this information ...