Community Care

APRIL 30, 2024

The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities. It was introduced in 2013 to replace disability living allowance (DLA) for people of working age. What is PIP? or £108.55

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Practice educators also said they were increasingly working with students with additional needs, such as mental health conditions, autism, dyslexia or ADHD, and needed more training to do so. As a result, some ended up championing not only their own needs, but those of neurodivergent and disabled colleagues and students.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 26, 2024

One week ago, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gave a speech causing concern when it comes to words he used about mental health. Language can be powerful, particularly in regards to mental health conditions. The Conservatives recent rhetoric has provoked a strong response from charity sector leaders and health organisations.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Longstanding concerns amid passion for role These ranged from navigating the emotional labour of supporting struggling students to grappling with institutional racism and advocating for fellow disabled and neurodivergent colleagues because of a lack of support and reasonable adjustments within organisations.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Progress in practitioners’ expertise Still, he acknowledges the “enormous” progress that has occurred in practitioners’ expertise and attitudes towards disability, mental health, alcoholism and drug addiction – and their work with families, local communities and the ageing population. “I

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The Guardian

APRIL 7, 2024

Plus a letter from someone who cares for a partner with a mental health condition, and another from Jane Nation on the invisibility of disabled people You’re right to praise Kate Garraway for shining a light on the financial, physical and emotional toll of being an unpaid carer ( Editorial, 27 March ).

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Have you ever wondered what the “KVC” in KVC Health Systems stands for? Caring Women Founded KVC The organization that is now KVC Health Systems began in 1970 as a multi-story brick home in downtown Kansas City, Kansas called Wyandotte House. A few years later, the parent organization KVC Health Systems was created.

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