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Budget 2015
17 March 2015 | News
... and young people experiencing problems with their mental health . £1 billion provided over the next 5 years to start ... for children. 1.235 Women who experience mental ill health during the perinatal or antenatal period . Additional ... for designated leads in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and schools to improve access to ...
Experience only comes with time and practice, trying things out and failing sometimes
10 April 2017 | News
... competing in, the World Transplant Games helps him to stay healthy. Read blog “To be fit for life so as to avoid many of the modern-day health problems has to be a priority for me.” He even ...
Psychologists Walking the Talk for social justice
18 August 2015 | News
... banks, supported housing, homelessness services and mental health centres, recording testimonies from people whose ... walking 100 miles to fight austerity’s impact on mental health @ www.theguardian.com Psychologists Walking the Talk ...
DWP launches WCA changes consultation aimed at reducing the number of claimants in ‘limited capability for work-related activity’ group
06 September 2023 | News
... be entitled to an extra amount of benefit. The March 2023 Health and Disability White Paper proposed abolishing the WCA and instead replacing it with one health and disability assessment – the personal ... for the LCW continence descriptors. Substantial risk to health In addition, the DWP proposes two options relating ...
Disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system: Committee publishes withheld Government-commissioned research
09 February 2022 | News
... refused to make public. The report - The Uses of Health and Disability Benefits - was received by the DWP in ... food, rent, and heating. This research also highlights that health and disability benefits are a key element of the ... findings include: Participants believed better access to health services, particularly mental health services, would ...
DWP test new conditionality policy focussing on a what a Disabled claimant “can do, not what they can’t”
31 October 2021 | News
... policy – ‘Tailoring Up’. In 2019 the DWP introduced Health Model Offices (HMOs) in 11 jobcentres aimed to test ... more intensive support to disabled people and people with health conditions; and • adapting the physical environment ... to better meet the needs of disabled people and people with health conditions. The Minister, Chloe Smith, says that: ...
Disabled student launches legal action for the right to be able to claim Universal Credit
28 June 2020 | News
... from Halifax, suffers severe sight impairment and mental health difficulties. As a student in full time higher ... be spent on the extra costs of living associated with her health conditions. She has £122 a month to live off, which ... course last year, following a deterioration in her health. The DWP refused to undertake a work capability ...
I Can Make It travels five hundred miles and will go five hundred more to make new friends
02 February 2017 | News
... and Anna Denham went to Bristol to speak at the Work and Health think tank event with our Champion for Bristol, ... filmed as part of the event. It will be put on the Bristol Health Partners YouTube Channel . Afterwards we held ... their interest in our work. We would like to thank Bristol Health Partners and Bristol City Council for their ...
Landmark Funding Announced for Second Stage of Moving Social Work Programme
04 December 2023 | News
... of physical activity for Disabled people, to help reduce health inequalities and improve social justice. Disabled ... physical activity, we hope this will, in turn, help tackle health inequalities and empower Disabled people to be more ... be essential for our work around identifying root causes of health inequalities that Disabled people face and working ...
Taking Charge: Practical help with disability all in one book
06 March 2017 | News
A practical guide to living with a disability or health condition If you have a physical or mental health condition, have just been given a life-changing diagnosis or your health is starting to worsen in later life. 'Taking Charge' ...