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With new disability benefits having been introduced earlier this year, from April 8 claimants across some areas of the United Kingdom have... Delete the scoop?
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National mental health charity: information, services & a strong voice for everyone affected by mental illness - challenging attitudes and changing lives. Delete the scoop?
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The work and pensions select committee launches an inquiry after Duncan Smith was rebuked by the UK Statistics Authority for misrepresenting figures on the benefit cap. Delete the scoop?
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20 May 2013Breaking Work Barriers: Providing Deaf People with Employment Support to Find and Keep Jobs Liz Sayce is giving a talk at Deaf Unity’s Deaf Learners Conference on 28th May entitled Breaking Work Barriers: Providing Deaf People with... Delete the scoop?
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A scheme to help the unemployed find work appears to be failing the most disadvantaged jobseekers, MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee say. Delete the scoop?
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21 May 2013Can the Work Programme work for all user groups? Delete the scoop?
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The department wants to make the NHS among the best in Europe at supporting people with ongoing health problems. Delete the scoop?
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Mild iodine deficiency during pregnancy could be dimming the intellect of some babies born in the UK, say researchers who studied 1,000 families. Delete the scoop?
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Analysis by a clinical psychologist at Oxford University has shed new light on the gender disparity in mental health. How great are the differences between men and women? Delete the scoop?
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Two people with mental health problems win a legal challenge against the government tests for sickness benefit. Delete the scoop?
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Judges rule the procedure used by the DWP to decide eligibility for ESA disadvantages people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and autism. Delete the scoop?
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The DWP have lost in the courts again after a tribunal today ruled that the Atos run Work Capability Assessment (WCA) disadvantages people with mental health problems. This follows a string of lega... Delete the scoop?
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Charities have claimed a major legal victory over who is eligible for the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Delete the scoop?
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20 May 2013The Government must now make the names of work programme providers public Delete the scoop?
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It can be difficult to detect adult abuse, but councils need to do more to raise awareness of the services available While shocking stories in the news about the abuse and neglect of elderly people in care homes and people with physical or learning... Delete the scoop?
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21 May 2013People who need to use a locked disabled loo can now 'go' in peace” Delete the scoop?
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Witnessing blatant police cruelty convinced the award-winning lawyer to make deaths in custody his life's work Leslie Thomas has worked on a prodigious number of high-profile cases of deaths in custody during his 25-year career as a human rights... Delete the scoop?
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Specialist housing doesn't offer the financial or social incentives to encourage downsizing. In an ageing society, we must fix this Delete the scoop?
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The elderly care system is heading inexorably “towards further disasters and tragedies” despite a long-awaited overhaul of funding, Baroness Bakewell warned peers. (Elderly care headed for disaster and tragedy? Delete the scoop?
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A brand new development of 83 homes in Leyton E10 available through L&Q's shared ownership scheme, coming in March 2014. Delete the scoop?
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Work capability assessments place those with mental health conditions at substantial disadvantage, judge concludes The fitness-for-work test used to determine whether hundreds of thousands of people are eligible to claim sickness benefits... Delete the scoop?
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