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Apply now to become a Trustee of Disability Rights UK
29 June 2024 | Opportunity
... lived experiences including: learning difficulties, mental health conditions, neurodiversity, deafness, hearing ... visual impairments, physical impairments and long-term health conditions. Please see the attached documents for ...
Apply now to become a Trustee of Disability Rights UK
29 June 2024 | Opportunity
... lived experiences including: learning difficulties, mental health conditions, neurodiversity, deafness, hearing ... visual impairments, physical impairments and long-term health conditions. Please see the attached documents for ...
Disabled students to lose entitlement to Universal Credit from this week
14 December 2021 | News
... young people who acquire a disability or develop a serious health condition after they begin their studies will also be ... are not able to supplement their income with UC. The recent Health and Disability Green Paper emphasised the ... students who acquire a disability or develop a serious health condition during their studies will also be ...
DPOs call for reinstatement of infection control measures
15 July 2021 | News
... attend school for their education, wellbeing, mental health and long-term development. Clinically extremely ... and with levels of isolation detrimental to mental health. Many will be nervous about attending medical ... schools are best placed to ensure their wellbeing, mental health and long-term development. 770,000 school refusing ...
Government responds to committee report on sanctions
10 February 2019 | News
... capability for work or those who have an impairment or health condition, including mental health, and who present a valid Fit Note stating that they ... finding coercive ways to get people off benefits when their health or other critical factors clearly make this ...
Local authority social care responsibilities under the spotlight
09 June 2016 | News
... make the most out of personalising care; The Department of Health does not believe that everyone who councils say are ... funding. The committee is calling on the department of Health to provide greater clarity on how the Care Act can be ... technology, and the progress made by local authorities and health services to deliver integrated health and social care ...
DR UK and our members respond to Commons defeat of Lords amendments
23 February 2016 | News
... will have a damaging impact on their physical and mental health. Disability Rights UK members and supporters and ... modern workplaces. The upcoming White Paper on disability, health and employment is an important opportunity to reform ...
Report exposes shocking rise in levels of food-poverty related illness
20 July 2023 | News
... Royal College of GPs said: “If this is indicative of the health of our most vulnerable, then it is shocking. The ... on food to meet the cost of the Government recommended healthy diet, while a third of food and soft drink ... spectrum but particularly these very marked differences in healthy food consumption between the poorest and the richest ...
DR UK works with BBC Newsnight to challenge carers benefit debt
16 May 2024 | News
... with many carers falling further into debt, suffering ill health , losing their savings and inheritances , and in ...
It’s Time To “Stop the Witch-Hunt” Against Flexible Working, Says Coalition of Unions and Equality Campaigners
07 October 2024 | News
... at our public services. In the midst of a staffing crisis, health, education and social care workers are leaving due to ... feel secure and respected at work, they have happier, healthier lives and perform better in their jobs.” ... that exclude women, older workers, and those managing health conditions. “Offering flexible working options ...