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Government abandons commitment to halve disability employment gap?
11 May 2016 | News
... will publish a White Paper focusing on the roles that the health, care and welfare sectors can play in supporting disabled people and those with health conditions to get into and stay in work.” Whilst ...
2nd Access to Work evidence session
02 September 2014 | News
... of people with more "hidden" disabilities, such as mental health conditions, learning disabilities and developmental ... Nicola Oliver, IPS Project Coordinator, Centre for Mental Health Ciara Lawrence, Campaigns Assistant and Ailis Hardy, ...
Disabled people still facing discrimination over face coverings
13 July 2020 | News
... to the House of Commons this afternoon, the Minister for Health, Matt Hancock today announced that mask wearing would ... are mandated in England, there are some circumstances, for health, age or equality reasons, whereby people are not ...
DR UK congratulates our Chair on being awarded an OBE
06 January 2019 | News
... should have access to effective medicines, treatment and healthcare – an aim which the global MSIF movement is now ... developments and improve access to treatments and healthcare. Through capacity building, campaigning and ... by and for people with lived experience of disability or health conditions. We want a society where everyone can ...
Guidance on Work Capability Assessment reassessment published
05 October 2017 | News
... Treatment of claimants with the most severe and lifelong health conditions or disabilities ( word and pdf ) Severe ... if they: have a severe, lifelong disability, illness or health condition are unlikely to ever be able to move into ... published the final versions of the “severe conditions” healthcare professional (HCP) guidance and criteria, their ...
Making disabled peoples participation real
04 June 2014 | News
... expansion of peer support and an overthrow of risk averse health and social care policies that restrict independent ... and control, the use of co-ercive powers under mental health law is growing inexorably, and as Shami Chakrabarti ... the like. So we don’t want to sustain these disempowering health and social services. Tom, you argued that the ...
WOW petition motion passed
26 February 2014 | News
... with learning difficulties, provision of universal mental health treatments, closures of Remploy factories, the Government’s contract with Atos Healthcare, IT implementation of universal credit, human ... and the Tribunals Service; urges the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Education jointly to ...
Care and support eligibility criteria proposals
30 June 2013 | News
... criteria for adult care and support. The Department of Health is inviting discussion on the proposals as well as ... but doing so endangers or is likely to endanger the health or safety of the adult, or of others; or (d) is able ... of providing care, the carer’s physical or mental health is, or is at risk of, significantly deteriorating; ...
MPs give Secretary of State “one final chance” to publish commissioned research on Disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system
15 December 2021 | News
... Coffey has refused to publish the report, “The Uses of Health and Disability Benefits”, that was commissioned to ...
Baroness Campbell calls for human rights-busting Coronavirus powers to be switched off
28 September 2020 | News
... across the House wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the other place, to make this ... protected by the Children and Families Act, the Mental Health Act, and the Care Act. They were only intended to be ... are experiencing disproportionate stress and serious health risks, as a direct result of decreased care and ...