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U.K. Disability and Health News

Health and disability news updates and coming events from England and the U.K. of interest to senior citizens and persons with disabilities.

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The U.K. Disability Discrimination Act - The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 aims to end the discrimination that many disabled people still face today.

This Act has been significantly extended, including by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. It now gives disabled people rights in the areas of:

* Employment
* Education
* Access to goods, facilities and services, including larger private clubs and transport services
* Buying or renting land or property, including making it easier for disabled people to rent property and for tenants to make disability-related adaptations
* Accessing everyday goods and services like shops, cafes, banks, cinemas and places of worship
* Accessing or becoming a member of a larger private club (25 or more members)
* Accessing the functions of public bodies, like the issuing of licenses for example

The Act requires public bodies to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. It also allows the government to set minimum standards so that disabled people can use public transport easily.

U.K. Seniors - Employers in England will no longer be able to force workers to retire before 65, unless they can justify it. The government has announced that firms will be barred from 2006 from imposing arbitrary retirement ages. Under age discrimination proposals from the Department of Trade and Industry workers are allowed to work on till 70 if they wish. Many retired people in the U.K. do not claim all the benefits that they are entitled to. Benefit rules are not needlessly generous so if you qualify for any help you should take up your entitlement. There are two main types of benefits: means tested and non means tested.

Articles

Pub. Date	Topic	Author
2012-01-04	Cost of Disability in Spain May Reach 77.2% of Household Income	FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology
2011-12-15	U.K. Cold Weather Payments - Information and Eligibility	The U.K. Department for Work and Pensions
2011-12-10	High-Level Meeting on Disability: European Disability Forum	EUROPA
2011-12-01	Winner of EU Award for Disabled Friendly Cities is Salzburg	Access City Award
2011-11-15	Access Cities Award Competition Advances to December Final	Access City Award
2011-10-08	More UK Families to be Paid Childcare Support	Department for Work and Pensions
2011-09-14	City for All Access - UK City Award 2012	Access City Award
2011-07-18	Countering Criticism of Negative Attitudes towards Women in Italy	Italy's Delegation
2011-07-16	U.K. Child Maintenance System to Change	Department for Work and Pensions
2011-07-06	Free UK Road Atlas for Blue Badge Drivers	Liam Fair
2011-06-30	Launch of the Access City Award 2012	Access City Award
2011-05-13	UK Government Response to Households Below Average Income Figures	DWP
2011-05-10	New Measure of UK Pensioner Poverty	Department for Work and Pensions
2011-03-23	Welfare Reform Bill Concerns for Disabled Vehicle Users	Allied Mobility
2011-03-23	Disabled Hardest Hit in UK Welfare Reform	Disability Alliance
2011-03-01	Cash for Families of Children with Disability - Scotland	The Scottish Government
2011-02-19	Response to Government Welfare Reform Bill	www.macmillan.org.uk
2011-02-09	UK Residents Have 2 Months to Boost Their Basic State Pension and Get Backdated Payments	Department for Work and Pensions
2011-01-26	Charities Say Sickness Benefit Assessment Reforms Will Cause Further Misery at Taxpayer’s Expense	Papworth Trust
2011-01-21	People with Disabilities Rights Recognised Across The Eu	Disability Rights
2011-01-18	UK Pensions Bill will Boost Retirement Savings for Millions	Department for Work and Pensions
2011-01-10	Cuts Will Slash Living Standards of 100,000 People with Disabilities in Norfolk by more than 30%	Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People
2011-01-03	EU: A Commitment to Disability Rights	Disability Rights
2011-01-02	Over 10 Million People to Live to 100 Years Old	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-12-23	UK Back to Work Program will be Built on Payment by Results	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-12-15	Disabled People Fight Back in Protest - UK Disability News	UK Disability News
2010-12-13	People with Disabilities Get Right to Control Services	Office of Disability Issues
2010-12-07	Extra 20,000 to Lose Mobility Component of DLA - UK Disability News	UK Disability News
2010-11-30	UK Housing Benefit Reforms will Restore Fairness	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-11-26	Jobseeker’s Allowance Mandatory Work Activity Public Consultation	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-11-15	Last Chance for Families of Children with Disability to Receive Free IT Equipment	iansyst Ltd
2010-11-10	Amputees in Action CEO Joins Panel for 2010 Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs in the UK	Amputees in Action
2010-11-07	Disability Awareness Programme For Clare Students	Disability Awareness
2010-10-26	School in Hampshire to Inspire Dyslexic Students Worldwide to Learn More Independently with ICT	Texthelp Systems Ltd
2010-10-13	Deaf Teenagers Work with Professional Actor Colin Wells	The Ear Foundation
2010-09-22	Trabasack Entrepreneur Shortlisted for Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs in the UK 2010	Duncan Edwards, Equip-able Ltd
2010-09-17	Disability Champion Phil Packer Becomes Papworth Trust Envoy	Papworth Trust
2010-09-14	Debenhams Breaks New Ground with National Disabled Model Campaign	Debenhams
2010-09-11	Heart Attacks Jump in Young Italian Women	Sbarro Health Research Organization
2010-09-09	Cornish Law Firm Explains New UK Equality Act	Eventy- Marketing and PR
2010-09-09	Questions on Accessibility for UK TfL and Rail Operators	U.K. Disability News
2010-09-08	Almost 20% of Households Across UK are Jobless	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-09-07	Quarter of a Million UK Carers Missing out on New State Pension Protection	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-09-07	Deaf Teenagers Visit Number 10 Downing Street	The Ear Foundation
2010-08-31	Taking it to the Next Level	Equip-able Ltd
2010-08-26	Norfolks Disability Community Fights Back - UK Disability News	Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People
2010-08-26	Disability Benefits Survey by Leonard Cheshire Disability UK	Leonard Cheshire Disability
2010-08-24	U.K. Employers and Workers Back Pension Reforms	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-08-16	Lifeline Set to Land in Staffordshire for Families	Caudwell Children
2010-07-30	Early Intervention: Key to Giving Disadvantaged Children Opportunities they Deserve	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-07-22	Independent Living Training Centre for Norfolk Opening	Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People
2010-07-21	European Social Fund Evaluation of Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-07-20	Mobile Health Centre Clinic Wandsworth, London	Event Marketing Solutions
2010-07-12	Britain's Most Dangerous Roads	Road Safety Foundation
2010-07-11	Energy Rebate Scheme for UK Pensioners	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-07-10	Study of Families with Children in Britain	Department for Work and Pensions
2010-06-20	Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People Scoop First Place at Awards	Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People
2010-06-20	MHE Calls on EU Leaders to Strengthen Dimension of Disability Policies	Mental Health Europe (MHE)
2010-06-17	Seniors in Europe Face Longer Wait Until Retirement	Aon Consulting
2010-06-17	XMA Awarded Contract to Provide Assistive Technology Packages	XMA
2010-06-11	The Larches Trust Plants the Seeds for Independent Living	Monique Lester
2010-05-26	Chrysallia at Final Meeting of ESST Project	Chrysallia
2010-04-29	Shops and Services Still Failing Customers with Disability	Leonard Cheshire Disability
2010-04-02	New U.K. Benefit Test will Fail to Spot Disability and Illness	MIND
2010-03-19	Child Trust Fund Boost for Children with Disability	HM Treasury
2010-03-12	Autism Employment Campaigners U.K. Victory	The National Autistic Society
2010-02-28	The Lord’s Taverners and BT - Multi-sensory Rooms for Children with Disabilities	Lords Taverners
2010-01-27	Calls for Salt Intake Legislation in Europe	European Society of Cardiology
2009-12-29	UKAF Campaign results in increases in DLA, CLA, Child Benefits in Chancellor Darling's PBR	UK Autism Foundation
2009-12-22	Number of 85-year-olds will Increase by a Third by 2020	BMJ-British Medical Journal
2009-12-17	British Council and Arts Council England Memorandum of Understanding	artscouncil.org.uk
2009-12-14	Forty Charities Attend Sarah Brown's Downing Street Autism Summit	UK Autism Foundation
2009-10-27	Government Decides Not to Scrap Disability Living Allowance	WRVS
2009-09-26	Miriam Margolyes Disabled Living Foundation Appeal	Disabled Living Foundation
2009-08-07	Gary McKinnon: Petition and Appeal to President Barack Obama	UK Autism Foundation
2009-07-08	Persons with Learning Disabilities More Likely to Develop Eyesight Problems	Thomas C. Weiss
2009-04-23	Colleague's Deafness Inspires Marathon Runner	Johan Fourie Marathon
2009-04-17	UKAF appeal to Chancellor Alistair Darling	UK Autism Foundation
2009-04-12	Businesses Join with Grenoble Ecole De Management to Meet Challenges of Disability	Grenoble Ecole de Management
2009-04-11	Mum's Memory Inspires Bedfordshire Marathon Runner	Deafness Research UK
2009-04-08	Disabled Students Achieve Potential with Government's Home Access Pilot	iansyst and XMA - Home Access Pilot
2009-04-02	New Law to Strengthen Protection of Vulnerable People UK	Department of Health (UK)
2009-04-02	World Autism Awareness Day - Stand Up for Autism	National Autistic Society
2009-03-24	RADAR Hopes Obama Apology Sincere and Lesson Learned	RADAR
2009-03-22	U.K. Blind people to Receive Higher Rate of Mobility Component	The National Federation of the Blind
2009-03-18	RFID Tracking to Revolutionise the UK Medical Industry	Carol Harding
2009-03-16	Limiting Access to Disabled Children's Services is Unlawful	Council for Disabled Children
2009-03-11	First British Blind Soap Actress as Lizzie Lakely	LCDisability.org
2009-03-07	Charitable Trust Takes Official Receipt of £350k Jumbulance	Jumbulance Trust
2009-03-02	U.K. Service Creates Opportunities for People with Learning Disability	Adult Social Care Service
2009-03-02	U.K. Care Charges Risk Leading Older and Disabled into Poverty	Carers U.K.
2009-02-27	U.K. Disability Equality Act Information	DWP
2009-02-24	UK Winter Fuel Payments	DWP
2009-02-24	U.K. Ambulance Service National Stroke Campaign	Disabled World
2009-02-23	Public say Social Care is as Important as NHS	LCDisability.org
2009-02-18	Hollyoaks Stars Marathon Effort for Charity	lcdisability.org

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