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Ministers say thank you for all responses to the Improving Lives green paper
22 March 2017 | News
Penny Mordaunt MP, Minister for Disabled People, Health & Work and Nicola Blackwood MP, Minister for Public Health and Innovation ‘delighted’ at the high level of ... UK made 25 recommendations in our submission to the DWP, Health and Disability Green Paper “Improving Lives” ...
Disability Rights UK's response to WCA Consultation
10 November 2023 | News
... we will see more deaths and greater deterioration in health. The proposals are ideological and will lead to ... of people who are economically inactive because of ill health and the desire to control welfare spending. We ... towards Disabled people unable to work because of ill health. These changes rushed through despite the proposal ...
Strategic partner updates for September 2014
02 September 2014 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner (SP) to the Department of Health, NHS England and Public Health England. Disability Rights UK leads a user-led ...
DR UK’s CEO Message To The House Of Lords - Oppose The Universal Credit Bill Cuts
22 July 2025 | News
... Rights UK, as it will further push Disabled people on the health-element of Universal Credit into poverty, removing ... claimants will face a cut of £3,000 per year to the UC Health element. A restricted eligibility gateway “severe ... cannot work to live for years on only half of the existing health element. There will be a two-tier system . Debt and ...
More than six in ten referred to a food bank are Disabled people
12 May 2021 | News
... referred to a food bank in early 2020 had someone with ill-health or disability, four times the rate in the general ... general working age population (19%). People reporting poor health were six times more likely to be food insecure than people reporting ‘excellent’ health. The Trussell Trust says that “this raises ...
Exciting Funding Opportunity for Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs)!
25 July 2023 | News
... Opportunity for London Communities The NHS Legacy and Health Equity Partnership (LHEP) and the Greater London ... support community organisations. This initiative addresses health inequity and healthcare exclusion. The grants, ranging from £2,000 to ...
Govt response to WCA fourth review
26 March 2014 | News
... impact of earlier independent reviews; the way that mental health conditions are considered in the WCA; and the ... light of the EBR findings, in particular the feasibility of healthcare professionals using prompts from a ... DWP will also explore the scope to further review healthcare professional training and guidance on considering ...
Government proposes SSP extension to those earning less than lower earnings limit
15 July 2019 | News
... support and retain disabled staff and those with a health condition". Under the new measures the lowest paid ... a year then leaving employment altogether. Businesses and health providers will be asked for their views on how to ... to improve the capacity, value and quality of occupational health services and consider how to reduce the high costs, ...
DR UK opposes "dangerous" RSHE draft guidance
17 July 2024 | News
... to the Department for Education's Relationships, Sex, Health Education (RSHE) Guidance consultation - opposing ... "seek views on changes to the relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance." Some of the changes ... Government, our response comes after the new Minister for Health extended the previous Government's ban on puberty ...
We welcome Integrated Personal Commissioning plans
09 July 2014 | News
... The programme is intended to extend the use of combined health and social care personal budgets. The four groups of ... disabilities, and people with severe and enduring mental health problems. In an earlier Guardian interview , on 8 ... five million patients could each have a personal combined health and social care budget by 2018. Liz Sayce, Chief ...