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  • GPs to say no to medical evidence requests

    26 August 2013 | News

     Local Medical Committee (LMC) leaders from Lancashire and Cumbria have drafted a letter to help GPs turn down patient requests for support when appealing against their benefits being withdrawn.

    The template letter sent to practices advises patients to contact Jobcentre Plus or the appeals service if they need further medical evidence, and allow them to contact their GP if they think more information is needed.

    It says -

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  • Student FAQs

    23 September 2024 | Resource

    These are some of the common queries we receive concerning disabled students. If you cannot find the answer to your question among these FAQs then why not call our Disabled Students Helpline.

    Can I claim Universal Credit as a full-time disabled student?


  • Funding Further Education for Disabled Students

    07 October 2022 | Resource

    ... government with employers contributing through a tax on big business (known as the apprenticeship levy), or 10% of the ...


  • Women and Equalities Select Committee: pandemic has had “profoundly adverse effects” on disabled people’s access to services

    21 December 2020 | News

    ... should ensure that a greater proportion of coverage of business is fully accessible to Deaf people via the ...

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  • New funding social care green paper announced as well as £2 billion stopgap for councils

    07 March 2017 | News

    ... Return to work support – The government will work with business groups and public sector organisations to identify ...

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  • Disabled MP’s jobs warning to government: ‘Do not under-estimate prejudice’

    14 January 2016 | News

    ... She backed a Disability Rights UK proposal to force businesses above a certain size to monitor and publish data ...

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  • Disability equality e-learning for the House of Commons

    17 March 2013 | News

    ... of Commons Diversity and Inclusion team. As a disabled-led business we were keen to make the most of this collaboration ...

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  • Supermarket responses to DRUK letter

    15 April 2020 | News

    Supermarket responses to our questions on what they are doing to support disabled people

    Our CEO Kamran Mallick wrote to the CEOs of the eight largest supermarket chains to find out what they are doing to support disabled people access food and other household items. He asked them to answer the following questions:

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  • How disabled people could be affected in the case of a Brexit No Deal

    07 April 2019 | News

    ... to UK domestic transactions will continue to apply to businesses as they do now. Presumably VAT exemption rules ...

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  • DR UK PIP reform briefing

    17 March 2016 | News

    PIP has always been about cutting disability benefit expenditure.

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