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Disabled parents often seen as risk to their children rather than given support warns report
25 September 2018 | News
... University of Bedfordshire View full DRILL press release Health and social care services are failing disabled parents ... to them. While we recognise the complex demands facing health and social care professionals, they should work with ... an organisation that brings together disabled people with health and social care students on placement. The funding ...
Strategic partner updates September 2015
17 September 2015 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner to the Department of Health, NHS England and Public Health England Disability Rights UK heads up a user-led ...
MPs call for complete ESA redesign
22 July 2014 | News
... Committee sees the purpose of ESA as helping claimants with health conditions and disabilities to move into employment ... of this process, DWP should reintroduce an assessment of health-related employment barriers now, and then incorporate ... something along the lines of the suspended work-focused health related assessment (WFHRA) “130. In this context, ...
Austerity cuts killed tens of thousands from 2010 onwards
21 October 2021 | News
... in BMJ Open found that the joint impact of cuts to healthcare, public health and social care since 2010 found that the cuts were ... austerity measures were introduced in 2010. Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the findings were ...
Women go undiagnosed, accused of ‘hysteria’ - CII report
17 June 2021 | News
... (CII). The data will be submitted to the Department for Health and Social Care for its Women’s Health Strategy consultation. CII received nearly 800 response to a survey about the healthcare experiences of disabled women with ...
One-in-seven workers in Britain have a disability
19 October 2022 | News
... The biggest growth was seen amongst those reporting mental health impairments, with over three times as many Disabled ... trends, including: a growing societal awareness of mental health, the pandemic bringing into focus the topic of ill-health and adjustments in the workplace, and the impact of ...
Our response to the Litchfield review
12 December 2013 | News
... poor standard of medical assessments carried out by Atos Healthcare Professionals. Instead, he advises that DWP ... BT and Barclays have long abandoned using pre-employment health questionnaires to test someone’s capabilities to ... format that facilitates better rapport, such as the Health Care Professional (HCP) and person being assessed ...
DPO Forum England: Benefits Green Paper Explained
09 April 2025 | News
... and Pensions) has written a green paper about the entire health and disability benefit system. This is called ... the WCA and creating a new single assessment for PIP and UC Health. The government is proposing to scrap the “work ... where your eligibility for any extra financial support for health conditions (including PIP, ESA or UC health) will be ...
DWP admits wrongly refusing PIP to record number of Disabled people
24 February 2022 | News
... of the reconsideration and tribunal systems on their mental health.” Over half (56%) of claims which were taken to ... get decisions right and all assessments are carried out by healthcare professionals trained to consider the impact of someone’s health condition or disability, but we are exploring what ...
Govt announces extension of Access to Work
15 July 2013 | News
... just published Employing disabled people and people with health conditions , available at ...