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Disability royal comission hears multiple government agencies failed to intervene in neglect of Brisbane teens with autism

Teen brothers were found locked in their room, naked and in soiled nappies, after their father was discovered dead from a terminal illness at their home in Brisbane's northern suburbs.

ABC News

NDIS-funded disability services set for an overhaul as government seeks to slow forecast growth

Eligibility for services funded by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is set to be tightened as the government seeks to bank $74.3 billion in savings through trimmed growth forecasts.

ABC News

New Attendance Allowance application trial being offered to 60 people making a new claim each week

Invitations are being offered to older people who meet the current scope of the DWP trial.

Daily Record

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Racism towards Newcastle Hospitals staff increasing from patients - and their own colleagues

The Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust is working to address alarming trends including staff reporting increases in racism towards them from the public and even their colleagues.

Chronicle Live

People with chronic pain could be due up to £691 each month through PIP or ADP

More than 175,300 people are receiving support for chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and pain syndromes.

Daily Record

People on PIP, DLA or devolved benefits could be eligible for 40 hours free driving lessons this year

Learner drivers will still need to pay for the costs of the theory and practical driving tests.

Daily Record

Three groups of people on PIP who may see benefit fast-tracked to new devolved payment

More than 319,000 existing PIP claimants in Scotland will be moved to Adult Disability Payment by 2025.

Daily Record

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Full list of one-off payments for families and individuals due before end of the year

Important dates to add to your diary to help plan your household budget over the coming months.

Daily Record

Check your eligibility for £150 cost of living payment due this summer

An estimated six million people claiming disability benefits are set to receive the one-off lump sum.

Daily Record

Woman whose brain is slipping down spine in need of £200k for lifesaving treatment

Emily Balfour, 25, faces permanent disability if she cannot raise the £200,000 she needs

Wales Online

Teenagers with disabilities were confined to bedrooms for 25 days because a lift in home was broken, report finds

The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) carried out an unannounced inspection of the Woodbrook Lodge home for children with a disability in Monaghan on January 25

Irish Mirror

Brain surgery performed on baby in womb for first time

‘This may markedly reduce the risk of long-term brain damage, disability or death among infants’

The Independent UK

NDIA admits missing red flags in case of malnourished brothers found in house with dead father

Senior counsel assisting told royal commission one brother’s 12-month plan was worth $102,000, but only $361 was spent

The Guardian - AU

Woman in ‘living hell’ with brain slipping down her spine after ice-skating accident

Emily Balfour, 25, faces permanent disability if she cannot raise the £200,000 she needs

The Independent UK

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Disabled people facing cost-of-breathing crisis amid energy bills, TV ad warns

Disability charity Scope said disabled households need an additional £975 a month to have the same standard of living as non-disabled households.

ABC News

Esperance Shire calls for Activ Foundation's Read House to be returned to community

Read House opened in the 1980s after locals spent years holding fetes and quiz nights — and even raffling off a lost diamond ring — to help build it. It could soon be put on the market, but the council says it should be returned to the community.

Daily Record

Check your eligibility for new PIP-style payment worth up to £691 each month

Adult Disability Payment has replaced new claims for PIP in Scotland.

Daily Mirror

When is the next cost of living payment being issued and who will be eligible for it?

The first in a series of new cost of living payments started to hit bank accounts last month in a welcome boost for millions of Brits. Those in receipt of certain means-tested benefits started to receive £301 from April 25 - the first of three insta

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Daily Record

People of State Pension age with respiratory conditions could be due up to £101 each week from DWP

Attendance Allowance supports many health issues including emphysema, asthma and chronic bronchitis.

The Guardian - AU

Teen brothers with disabilities found naked and locked in room, commission hears

Counsel assisting the commission to submit that the violence, abuse and neglect suffered by the brothers was preventable, inquiry told

ABC News

Disability royal commission hears of horrific conditions teens with autism were held in

A neighbour of two teenagers with autism found locked in a room and severely malnourished in 2020, has detailed the horrific conditions they were subjected to. WARNING: This story contains content readers may find distressing.

The Hindu

World Thalassemia Day: An invisible disability that is lacking acceptance

An opinion piece on the Thalassemia disorder.

ABC News

Gippsland family builds accessible house to keep son living with disability out of aged care

Aresti lives with disability and was facing being put into a group home — until his family got creative with NDIS funding.

Chronicle Live

Call for DWP to end 'limbo and stress' for disabled benefits claimants

MPs' report says PIP assessment system is still letting people down and claimants should be paid if they are kept waiting too long

Newsroom.co.nz

The high cost of ‘disability-blind’ health policies

Aotearoa did well in keeping down the Covid-19 death toll but our health system faces the dual burden of a reform and recovery from the pandemic, and disabled people risk being further marginalised

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