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Starter payments needed to give financial support during 5 weeks wait for first Universal Credit payment, say MPs
18 October 2020 | News
... Assessment (WCA), some disabled people and people with health conditions must wait much longer than five weeks to ... number to food banks (35%) and a worsening of people’s health, in particular their mental health (85%) and again, most worryingly driving people to ...
Eighty civil society groups reveal UK failure to meet anti-torture obligations
06 May 2019 | News
... number of people are being detained under the Mental Health Act, with a 36% rise in the number of detentions ... 2010. Serious concerns also remain about ill-treatment in health care settings. A 2018 survey of 1,544 staff across 92 ... people are forced to rely on. Rigorous training for health and social care staff in the Convention Against ...
The Labour Party gives a vague response to the Disability Scorecard
25 June 2024 | News
... gap by providing disability-responsive employment support? Health: will you stop non-consensual “do not ... other areas of their manifesto. Their commitment to mental health is to be lauded including their plan to recruit 8,500 mental health staff. In their own words: “Mental health ...
Young disabled people wanted to help smash employment barriers
21 June 2016 | News
... is looking for young people with disabilities and long term health conditions to join us in smashing barriers to ... our efforts to recruit young people with disabilities and health conditions onto the project. Our thanks go to Media ... So if you’re 18-29, have a disability or long term health condition and wish to help improve the career ...
Fit for Work: guidance for employers
07 January 2015 | News
... Work advice service, aims to support people in work with health conditions and those who are off sick. Employers and ... to Fit for Work in two ways:. an advice service providing health and work advice through a website and a telephone line a referral service providing an occupational health assessment and a return to work plan for employees ...
Financial pressure undermines NHS
09 July 2014 | News
... squeeze on funding due to increasing demand on the health service and the consequences of public sector ... also published the findings from its first survey of 100 health and social care leaders. For the survey findings, ...
Budget 2021: “Outrageous” that over 1.9 million disabled people on legacy benefits refused £20 week financial lifeline
08 March 2021 | News
... people. Before the Budget, key bodies working across health and care said that that the £20 must be kept and ... people and people with long-term mental and physical health conditions, were excluded from the uplift they said: ... their mental and physical strain which in turn worsens health. We urge you to ensure that the full support of this ...
DR UK wants true reporting on WCA
04 February 2014 | News
... tell us how you got here today The test is conducted by health care professionals – this masks the fact that ... may and indeed are making assessments of peoples mental health For many impairment groups there is no concept of ...
Government Rejects Call For Increase In £150 Cost Of Living Payment To Disabled People
30 January 2024 | News
... been forced to turn off heating and limit the charging of health and mobility- related equipment. This is morally unacceptable and will inevitably lead to more ill health, risk to life and increased hospital admissions. ... the needed solutions that would keep Disabled people safe, healthy, and independent this winter.” For more ...
DR UK response to the Welfare Safety Net Inquiry
13 February 2019 | News
... with lived experience across the spectrum of disability and health conditions, including mental health conditions, learning disabilities, dementia and ... and extreme hardship, with serious consequences for their health and wellbeing. It says that people moving onto ...