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Open Letter To Liz Kendall: Don’t Continue With WCA Cuts
28 October 2024 | News
... group. These are not people with “mild” mental health conditions, as portrayed in sections of the media. ... suicide among claimants while contributing to the mental health and recruitment crises among DWP staff. The social ... increased pressures on the NHS, on social care and mental health services and on Access to Work as well as through ...
Digital Content Officer
07 February 2023 | Opportunity
... who identify as being LGBTQIA2S+; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working class ...
High Court rejects application for second Jodey Whiting inquest
21 September 2021 | News
... the letter and so missed the WCA. Jodey had severe mental health problems. She had also been ill with pneumonia and ... Jodey, who lived with serious long-term physical and mental health issues, was desperately let down by the DWP but this ...
"Sharp rise" in DWP benefit death reviews "deeply concerning"
13 July 2021 | News
... the impact assessment process has on people's mental health and what must be done to prevent future deaths," he ... over the same time period as the internal reviews. Mental health vulnerabilities were a contributing factor in 35 of ...
Reintroduction of work conditionality and sanctions is an appalling decision that must be reversed, says DR UK
29 June 2020 | News
... DR UK and sixteen other leading charities and mental health organisations, backed the Stop Benefit Deaths ... finding coercive ways to get people off benefits when their health or other critical factors clearly make this ...
The welfare safety net is not fit for purpose says Work and Pensions Committee
30 July 2019 | News
... survey of the additional costs of disability and long-term health conditions. In addition, it stresses that this should ... society including disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. Yet, since 2008, changes to welfare ...
Minister admits confusion caused by integrated PIP and ESA assessment announcement
25 April 2019 | News
The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Justin Tomlinson has said “there is a bit ... or specialists who had experience of their disability or health condition. Inaccurate assessments and recommendations ...
DR UK signs open letter to Home Builders Federation who object to LAs building accessible new homes
28 November 2018 | News
... and society. “Disabled people, those with long-term health conditions and older people deserve to have the ... we will see increased and unsustainable pressure on our health and social care services and much reduced quality of ...
DWP “hounded disabled woman for years” before her “starvation” death, papers show
22 September 2022 | News
... non-payment of rent. Although her family alerted her mental health team to the financial problems caused by the DWP ... history of suicide attempts and detentions under the Mental Health Act. The Department has confirmed to DNS that it has ...
Student Days - A Memoir Piece on Personal Assistants
16 January 2024 | News
... work in a carpet factory when I was doing my occupational health, as well as VD outpatients’ clinic and a secure ...