Half of people living in poverty in UK affected by disability
Almost half of people in poverty are disabled or live in a household with a disabled person, according to new research. A report by the New Policy Institute found that
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Tag: Disabilities
Engage: Coalition in call for new model of social care support in Scotland
Scotland’s social care support system increasingly risks cracking under the strain, as demand rises and funding fails to keep pace, to the potential detriment of thousands of disabled people and
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Disability charities urge end to funding uncertainty for supported housing
Disability charities have urged ministers to “end the uncertainty” around future funding for supported housing for disabled people who want to live independently. The 15 charities wrote to the Government,
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Webwatch: Your Options Understood – Independent advice to those living with a disability
Your Options Understood (Y.O.U.) is a resource that offers independent advice to those living with a disability, as well as parents and carers. It was set-up by Dr Danielle Farrel
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Dozens killed or injured in shocking knife attack at care home for disabled
At least 19 people have been killed and about 20 wounded in a knife attack at a centre for handicapped people near Tokyo – Japan‘s worst mass killing in generations.
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Mencap urge Government address funding crisis in short breaks for disabled
The Government is being urged to “address the crisis in local councils’ funding” hitting disabled people and their families. Learning disability charity Mencap spoke out after two families from Newbury
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Judge rules mentally disabled woman can be taken from her home to undergo surgery
A mentally-disabled agoraphobic can be sedated and taken from the home she has not left for many years so doctors can perform an eye operation, a judge has ruled after
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Disabled man to sue NHS Trust over court order enforcing 3am removal from home
A disabled man says he plans to sue after a High Court judge gave medics permission to take him from home to hospital and authorised the use of force. Aamir
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‘Very exciting’ Multiple Sclerosis treatment found to reverse disease symptoms in tests
A radical treatment that wipes out and then regenerates the immune system can halt progression of aggressive multiple sclerosis and even reverse its symptoms, research has shown. Scientists in Canada
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Government policy for disabled people on benefits ‘seriously misguided’, report
A radical new approach is needed to prevent disabled workers leaving the workforce if the Government is to have any hope of meeting its disability employment target, a report has
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