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Darlington Association on Disability evaluation
06 May 2015 | News
... is now available. The Evaluation of this Department of Health funded innovation project demonstrates how peer ... wide range of options even though they are not eligible for health or social care services. Volunteer training is ...
Disability Rights UK on the impact of sanctions
12 January 2015 | News
... own guidance on safeguarding leading to people with mental health conditions being suspended from benefit payments ... many of whom will have learning difficulties or mental health conditions. We also warned the committee that records ...
DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick's New Year message
30 December 2022 | News
The pandemic brought some of our lived experiences to those without impairments – the isolation, the poverty, the despair and the lack of opportunity to go about day-to-day activities that form a part of so many of our lives.
In the main, it didn’t happen. Life bounced back into an almost pre-pandemic shape. The barriers we face and our support needs remain but are no longer in the spotlight.
Many of us are still needing to shield, now without any extra support, and this is the year where things have gone beyond heat or eat, to heat, eat or care.
Human Rights Watch to visit UK to gather evidence on institutional abuse
05 October 2023 | News
... evidence. The team will have a focus on people with mental health issues and learning disabilities as HRW has become ... with learning disabilities still being placed in mental health units. Visiting London on Oct 17th and 18th, the HRW ...
Unacceptable 'Concessions' on the Disability Cuts will Permanently Divide The Disabled Community
27 June 2025 | News
... be Disabled, to a future of poverty, hardship and worsening health. Not to mention those unable, or yet to apply due to ...
Digital Content Officer
07 February 2023 | Opportunity
... who identify as being LGBTQIA2S+; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working class ...
Ofsted report misrepresents the main problems facing the SEND system
14 December 2022 | News
... in the last year. The number of pupils with Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) has also grown by 51% since ... in after 88 weeks. This research represents an education, health and care system that consistently fails to ... before the pandemic, the lack of high-quality education, health and care services in some cases could have resulted ...
Government refuses to commit to keeping or extending the £20 week uplift to Universal Credit
24 November 2020 | News
... the most financial disruption as a result of the public health emergency. “As the Government has done throughout ... families, which is why we will look at the economic and health context in the new year.” In postponing a decision, ...
Shielding MPs allowed to ‘question’ but no longer vote
02 June 2020 | News
... government’s own rules, including having an underlying health condition or shielding responsibilities. “The ... reasonable adjustment for those MPs shielding because of health conditions and impairments who now have to choose ...
Disabled people ‘forgotten by Government’ as ‘perfect storm’ puts vital services on the brink
01 June 2020 | News
... Whilst some money has been made available for mental health, autism and learning disability it is nowhere near ...