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Work Programme lets down disabled
20 May 2013 | News
Can the Work Programme work for all user groups? - Work and Pensions Committee First Report of Session 2013–14
This report by the Work and Pensions Committee suggests that the Work Programme is failing to reach the most disadvantaged long-term unemployed people, with the result that the hardest to help jobseekers are at risk of being “parked” because providers consider them unlikely to find sustained work.
Commenting on the Report, Dame Anne Begg MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said:
Accessibily concerns over new taxi Uber App
15 June 2014 | News
... on accessible transport should black cabs be driven out of business because of greater use of the Uber App. “The ...
Latest Access to Work statistics
22 July 2013 | News
... that it won’t fund, stopping any requirement on small businesses to share the cost and actually marketing the ...
Combining WCA and PIP assessments: What does it mean?
17 March 2019 | News
Amber Rudd recently made a statement about moving the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) for Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (UC), and the PIP assessment services into one service from 2021.
North Wales Live has asked the DWP what this means in practice and received the following answers:
1000 Tweaks: Making Leicester a healthier place
22 August 2018 | News
... encourage individuals, families, organisations, places, and businesses to make a few small changes to their day to day ...
Is Universal Credit working for disabled people?
03 July 2018 | News
Work and Pensions Committee looks at how UC is working for disabled people.
Access to work uprating cap to be twice average earnings
19 March 2018 | News
As of April 2018, the access to work cap will rise to £57,200, double average earnings, not the originally proposed £43,100 which was in line with 1.5 times average earnings.
View Parliamentary written statement - HCWS563
View our Access to Work factsheet
Access to work will be uprated annually on this basis.
DR UK supports National Apprenticeship Week 2018
04 March 2018 | News
... and the positive impact they have on individuals, businesses and the wider economy. Dates: 5-9 March 2018 Find ...
Petition to end prescription charges for people with long-term conditions
09 April 2018 | News
... petition Managing a long-term condition is a costly business for many, but for those not entitled to free ...
DR UK at the Getting Things Changed event
27 September 2017 | News
Barriers and drivers to disabled people as commissioners of their own services.
Last week our Deputy CEO, Sue Bott along with Bernd Sass and Anna Denham, co-delivered a two-day workshop at the University of Bristol with regard to the “Getting Things Changed” research and development project.
Disability Rights UK is working on this in partnership with the Norah Fry Centre for Disability Studies at the university, and leads on one of five strands of the project, which looks at barriers and drivers to disabled people as commissioners of their own services.