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We want disabled peoples' experience of the criminal justice system
21 January 2019 | News
... of focus groups to better understand the experiences of disabled people when interacting with the criminal justice system. We would be looking for individuals who fit either of the following ... and reimbursement) will follow shortly. We want disabled peoples' experience of the criminal justice system ...
Disabled adults four times worse off financially than non-disabled adults finds new DBC report
15 July 2019 | News
... on the finances and lived experience of welfare reform on disabled people. The DBC, of which Disability Rights UK is a ... welfare become unfair - The impact of welfare changes on disabled people - is the first comprehensive study looking specifically at the cumulative impact of welfare ...
UN Committee: Rights of disabled people
31 July 2014 | News
... of the UK Government’s record on the rights of disabled people since it ratified the UN convention in 2009. We wish to draw directly on the experiences of disabled people and have already made two successive appeals ... of efforts to produce one parallel report and are looking to allow time for consensus to emerge. The latest ...
Disability Rights UK Research and Manifesto on Brexit
20 April 2017 | News
... UK has been researching the possible impact of Brexit on disabled people’s rights. This has included looking at UK laws that have a basis in EU law and what ... avoid aspects being lost or changed to the disadvantage of disabled people. We held a roundtable in March 2017 , ...
TUC Slams “Zero Progress” on Disability Pay Gap in Last Decade
14 November 2023 | News
New analysis shows pay gap between non-disabled and disabled workers is now 14.6% – higher than it was a ... regional and industrial disability pay gaps The analysis looked at pay data from across the country and found ...
Disability cuts will be kicked into the long grass
18 March 2016 | News
... Duncan Smith. [ Source: ITV ] Planned cuts to benefits for disabled people are expected to be "kicked into the long ... need to take time and get reforms right, and that will mean looking again at these proposals. It is not an integral part ...
Two new blogs on the experiences of disabled people in institutions
01 December 2015 | News
As part of Disability History Month, our blogs today look back at the experiences of disabled people in institutions. Institutions have long been a feature of the ‘care’ of disabled people, and it is only in very recent times that ...
Disability Rights UK’s challenge to the tech industry- how tech can get more disabled people moving!
13 June 2018 | News
“Disabled people are the experts in what they can and can’t ... and panel debate member for FutureFit - a one day event looking at how the tech industry can get more people active. ... Out Get Active Peer Support Project faced around linking disabled people with one another to offer support and how ...
Young disabled people wanted to help smash employment barriers
21 June 2016 | News
I Can Make It is looking for young people with disabilities and long term ... to help improve the career prospects of thousands of young disabled people nationwide, then e-mail leo.capella@disabilityrightsuk.org . Young disabled people wanted to help smash employment barriers ...
Disability employment gap narrows slightly but still wide
02 July 2018 | News
... inactive. These people were not in work and not looking for work. The economic inactivity rate for those ... on Disability offers Government a plan to support a million disabled people into work. See also our response to the ...