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Work and Pensions Secretary told to urgently increase the financial support paid to unpaid carers
01 July 2020 | News
Carers UK and ninety two other charities, including DR UK, have today written a joint letter to Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey calling for the urgent ...
£30 week cut to ESA intolerable says Disability Rights UK
16 November 2016 | News
Commenting on the debate around cuts in Employment and Support ... pernicious cut will do anything to help disabled people get and keep jobs - in fact the opposite is true. The Government ...
Update on the Labour Market Status of Disabled People
20 May 2020 | News
... on the labour market status of disabled people , covering April 2013 up to March 2020. This post discusses those statistics, and concludes with some informed speculation on what the ... Young disabled people will face the double whammy of being early career workers during a recession, as well as the ...
DPOs call for reinstatement of infection control measures
15 July 2021 | News
A plethora of organisations, including DR UK, is calling on government to revise new ... the virus.” It continues: “Guidance on meeting family and friends has been updated, with a greater emphasis on ... attend school for their education, wellbeing, mental health and long-term development. Clinically extremely vulnerable ...
Liz Sayce at Refocus on Recovery 2014
02 June 2014 | News
The Refocus on Recovery 2014 international conference took place on 2 and 3 June 2014. The conference had four main themes: System ... models, such as recovery houses? On close examination, what problems emerge within the recovery movement? (Critical ...
Support for shielders from supermarkets
16 November 2020 | News
In the first week of November 2020, we asked Aldi, Asda, ... our stores, we are continuing to open our stores 30 minutes early Monday - Saturday within the UK for our elderly and ...
Crisis threatens London social care services following Brexit
27 March 2018 | News
... EEA (European Economic Area) workers than any other region in England. Sadiq Khan says that London's social care services ... and the care sector’s recruitment and staff retention problems. Kamran Mallick, chief executive of Disability ...
PIP Award Review Backlog Could Take 10 Years to Clear
05 July 2024 | News
... take almost 10 years to work through the backlog of outstanding personal independence payment (PIP) planned award ... “The new Government needs to prioritise giving the DWP clearly needs to take much greater steps to increased capacity ...
People, Not Tick Boxes: Mind calls for rebuild of the disability benefits system
18 October 2020 | News
The mental health charity Mind has published a report that sets out what it has heard from hundreds of people with mental health problems, and sets out a case for five changes that would make sure ...
Government Launches New PIP Assessment Review
14 May 2025 | News
On 12 May, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall announced that the Government has now initiated a review of the Personal Independence Payment ... the PIP cuts proposals but said instead: “ I hear very clearly what my H on. Friend says, but I also want to be clear ...