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Covid highlights social security system is “simply unfit for purpose”
26 January 2022 | News
... job, relationship breakdown, parenting and care work or ill health. “This was clear before the pandemic, but Covid-19 ... and everyday hardship are negatively impacting mental health . Endemic and sustained financial insecurity combined ...
Suicide rates record high amongst 15-19 year olds
06 October 2022 | News
... ever number of referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Figures to date show the number of ... a shocking picture of the state of young people's mental health in this country. This cannot go on. Government must ... record numbers of young people struggling with their mental health but without government support, they can only offer a ...
Millions of Pounds Held Up Every Month Due to Delays in PIP Reviews
17 August 2023 | News
... in the past six months were Disabled or had a long-term health condition. Citizens Advice’s latest report found ... The delivery of PIP is constrained by the number of health assessments that can be carried out. Between January ... decisions and so bypass the need for time-consuming health assessments; Make sure all increased PIP payments ...
04 Strategic partner updates May 2015
11 May 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 ...
New Age UK report finds 1.6 million older people have unmet needs
13 July 2023 | News
... care. New research from charity Age UK, ‘ The State of Health and Care of Older People in England 2023 ’, documents how our health and care system is struggling, and too often failing, ... be avoided if they received help earlier, before small health problems mushroom into crises requiring urgent ...
Psychiatric asbos don’t work says one of their chief advocates
14 April 2013 | News
... This is what people with lived experience of mental health problems have been saying from the outset. Right now ... – or co-ercion? ] yet when those of us with mental health problems experience crises we are turned away from services. The way to avoid crises in mental health is NOT more compulsion but good support planning, ...
Tell Us About Your Care partnership
28 October 2020 | News
... people who contact us about their experiences of using health and social care services. DR UK's Head of Advice ... this initiative disabled people and people with long term health conditions have the opportunity to tell the regulator about their experiences of the health and social care services they use, not only ...
Presenteeism: UK’s Working-While-Sick Epidemic
08 August 2024 | News
... age. This means that workplaces that work for people with health conditions will grow in importance in the coming ... should strive to make sure the work we do is good for our health, that we have the time to recover when we need it, ... businesses both contribute to and benefit from population health.” Ken Butler DR UK’s Welfare Rights and Policy ...
European Committee finds our sickness and unemployment benefit levels inadequate
24 January 2018 | News
... Rights (ECSR) has published its annual conclusions on health, social security and social protection for 2017. ... articles of the Charter relating to the thematic group “Health, social security and social protection”: the right to safe and healthy working conditions (Article 3), the right to ...
Universal Credit: your claimant commitment and sanctions – new Public Law Project free advice resources
25 September 2019 | News
... The SSAC report also highlighted that people with mental health problems are less likely to feel that their ... Universal Credit: Homelessness Universal Credit: Mental health Universal Credit: Refugees If you would like to have ... training workshops for welfare rights advisers, mental health support workers, and people working in housing. It ...