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Disability Pride Month: Resistance in Action
09 July 2025 | News
... not face exclusion and marginalisation, whether that be in healthcare, education, housing or transport. This month, ...
Cost of living situation for UC households ‘almost universally dire’ says Joseph Rowntree Federation
23 June 2023 | News
... need for an Essentials Guarantee to protect the nation’s health. As a result, the JRF says, the situation has been ...
Two-thirds of frontline DWP staff don’t have enough time to handle safeguarding concerns carefully and correctly
21 June 2024 | News
... the hands of work coaches . “This could only endanger the health, safety and wellbeing of disabled claimants. ...
DWP: Deaths, cover-up, and a toxic 30-year legacy
06 April 2022 | News
... to make reasonable adjustments for UC claimants with mental health problems DWP accused of blocking claimant suicide ...
Green Paper failure to address inadequacy of financial support “shocking and unacceptable” says DPO Forum England
29 September 2021 | News
DPO Forum England has submitted its response to the DWP’s Health and Disability Green Paper. DPO Forum England – ... consultation response to Shaping future support: the health and disability Green Paper is available from ...
NICE withdraws landmark ME/CFS guidance
17 August 2021 | News
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has withdrawn long-awaited ... spokesperson for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said it was “very pleased” about the pause. They ...
Chairs of all UK cross-party committees urge £20 week UC uplift to be kept and extended to legacy benefits
25 July 2021 | News
... from poverty you will be saving more money long term on health, education, justice and other social services. It is ...
Queen’s Speech fails to deliver on social care, democracy, building and employment
11 May 2021 | News
... will be brought forward “later in the year”. A health bill will be implementing planned changes to the ... of NHS England for “a more integrated and efficient health and care system”. The Elections Integrity Bill will ...
Those who ‘fail to attend’ telephone work capability assessments may now have their ESA stopped or UC entitlement changed
04 November 2020 | News
... fails to attend an ESA or Universal Credit telephone health assessment without “good reason”. In its 6 ... update newsletter the DWP says: “When telephone health assessments were introduced in Employment and Support ...
Don't withdraw Care Act from Coronavirus Bill, urge disability charities
22 March 2020 | News
... of protections for people being detained under the Mental Health Act. Removing liberty is a drastic action and ... safeguards relating to the detention of people with mental health conditions are maintained. Given the magnitude of the ...