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• Hunt’s disability plans put 1m at risk of losing £350 a month, IFS says

  15-03-2023 19:26
  
  Charities and disability campaigners say chancellor’s proposals set out in his budget more ‘stick than carrot’Budget 2023 - live coverage and reactionUp to 1 million people currently claiming incapacity benefits could lose hundreds of pounds a month as a result of plans outlined in the budget to push ahead with the “biggest reforms to the welfare system in a decade,” experts have said.The warning came as ministers unveiled a range of measures to try to drive more pe
  
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• Hunt’s disability plans put 1 million people at risk of losing £350 a month, IFS says

  15-03-2023 19:26
  
  Charities and disability campaigners say chancellor’s budget proposals are more ‘stick than carrot’Hunt gives top 1% a pension bonus, ignores public services‘The pain was so bad but the assessors didn’t believe me’Up to 1 million people claiming incapacity benefits could lose hundreds of pounds a month as a result of plans outlined in the budget to push ahead with the “biggest reforms to the welfare system in a decade,” experts have said.The warnin
  
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• Budget is further kick in the teeth for social care

  15-03-2023 18:31 via careindustrynews.co.uk
  Care operators say today’s budget was a further kick in the teeth for the care of the country’s most vulnerable.The Independent Care Group (ICG) says there was nothing in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s speech to tackle the 1.6m people who cannot get the care they need.ICG Chair Mike Padgham said: “I’ll add an extra ‘E’ to Mr. Hunt’s list and that is, ‘Excluded’.“There was nothing in the budget to tackle the rationing of care, help us to
  
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• Nursing associate stories: a journey of personal discovery

  15-03-2023 16:21 via careindustrynews.co.uk
  Student Nursing Associate, Mercy Sharp, 52, was born in the Philippines and moved to England in 2007. She has worked at Royal Star & Garter in High Wycombe, since the care home opened in 2019. She is nearing the end of her nursing associate course, which she began in 2020. Royal Star & Garter is a charity providing compassionate care to veterans and their partners living with disability or dementia.
  Read her story hereFollow us on Instagram Facebook and TwitterStudent Nursing Associate,
  
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• Social workers should not assess asylum seeker ages for Home Office, professional body says

  15-03-2023 14:17
  
  Home Office is recruiting them for national assessment board, taking decision away from local authoritiesThe professional body for social workers has urged its members not to work with the Home Office to assess the ages of asylum seekers, saying that political pressures could undermine their professional judgment.The Home Office is recruiting social workers to join the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB), which was set up under the Nationality and Borders Act to take responsibility for determin
  
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• Social workers should not assess ages of asylum seekers, professional body says

  15-03-2023 14:17
  
  Home Office is recruiting them for national assessment board, taking decision away from local authoritiesThe professional body for social workers has urged its members not to work with the Home Office to assess the ages of asylum seekers, saying that political pressures could undermine their professional judgment.The Home Office is recruiting social workers to join the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB), which was set up under the Nationality and Borders Act to take responsibility for determin
  
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