As part of the Armed Forces Covenant, DWP is improving the way current and former members of the armed forces and their families access Jobcentre Plus services. This includes having an armed forces champion in every Jobcentre Plus District who ensures that we provide support that meets the needs of the armed forces community.
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Sep
Sep
This briefing explains the law on assisted suicide in England and Wales. It examines recent parliamentary activity, developments in other legal jurisdictions, human rights challenges, and stakeholders’ views.
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Aug
Aug
The Trussell Trust, a charity working to end the need of food banks, has reported a 15% drop in the number of three-day emergency food parcels it distributed between 31 March 2021 and 1 April 2022, compared to the year before. This was still an increase of 14% compared to the year 2019-2020, before the pandemic. In 2021-22 it distributed 2.1 million food parcels in the UK.
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Aug
Aug
These factsheets provide more information about each of the provisions in the act.
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Aug
Aug
The latest estimates from the Family Resources Survey indicate that 14.6 million people in the UK had a disability in the 2020/21 financial year. This represents 22% of the total population.
The proportion of the population reporting a disability has risen by four percentage points over this period, up from 18%. Most of this increase has been observed over the past decade, with disability prevalence up by three percentage points from 19% in 2010/11 to 22% in 2020/21.
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Aug
Aug
New analysis published by the Health Foundation’s REAL Centre warns that without urgent, significant policy action, the NHS in England is facing a crippling shortage of GPs and general practice nurses over the coming decade.
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Aug
Aug
As the UK exits the most acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention has turned to ‘long COVID’, which is on the rise and becoming no less severe. We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, collected during 2021, to learn more about the characteristics of long COVID sufferers, and to assess the impact long COVID has on labour market outcomes including hours, earnings and employment.
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Aug
Aug
Sets out how health and care systems should support the safe and timely discharge of people who no longer need to stay in hospital.
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Aug
Aug
Information for anyone attempting to gain access their own, or somebody else’s, medical records.
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Aug
Aug
Supported Housing Improvement Programme will help councils in worst-affected areas tackle bad quality and poor value for money in supported housing.