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Disabled peoples stories of leaving institutions
11 June 2013 | News
Disabled People in the UK share their stories of leaving ... with learning disabilities. Devised and researched by Disabled People’s user-led organisation CHANGE, the report ... that the young people lived in over-crowded rooms and it looked to me like they slept in cots. I was really upset to ...
New payment to be introduced in Scotland to protect those challenging disability benefit decisions
01 November 2020 | News
... new payment will give people the confidence to ask us to look again and to go to appeal if they feel they need to, ...
Government put Disabled people at risk in COVID vaccination process
20 January 2025 | News
The Covid Public Inquiry has heard that Disabled people were put at risk by failures to consider our ... vaccination process. Appearing on behalf of four national Disabled People’s Organisations (DPO) including Disability ... population, Governments across the UK continually fail to look at the world from Disabled people’s point of view, ...
Claimants with severe disability premium prevented from claiming universal credit
31 January 2019 | News
... payment; and no one gets carer’s allowance for looking after you; and you are living alone or is ...
Disability Rights UK announce ten-year funding from City Bridge Foundation
13 January 2025 | News
... as it will facilitate our working even more closely with Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs), focusing on issues ... with UNCRPD (United Nations Commission for the Rights of Disabled People) obligations. We will do this through ... barriers and amplify the voices of Disabled people. We look forward to collaborating with the other organisations ...
EHRC says lack of progress on disability rights is society’s badge of shame
19 July 2016 | News
... on the Equality Act 2010 and its effect on the lives of disabled people, David Isaac has called for a new national focus on disability rights so that disabled people are no longer treated as ‘2nd class ... still treating disabled people as second class citizens. We look forward to working with the Commission to ensure that ...
Health and Disability Green Paper published: Shaping Future Support
20 July 2021 | News
... Ways to provide more support to help meet the needs of Disabled people and people with health conditions and allow ... use benefits and services. Improve employment support for Disabled people and people with health conditions, and how ... Health Is Everyone’s Business consultation response also looks at how employers can support people at work.” The ...
Pledgeathon event at Financial Times HQ marks new approach to fair chance of a job for disabled people
19 March 2018 | News
... “The construction sector has a national average of 9.4% disabled staff but this is against a national average for ... of construction that open up new job opportunities for disabled people. We are looking to those responsible for the commissioning of major ...
Our response: Paying disabled people less for work
15 October 2014 | News
Today the BBC has reported the Lord Freud suggested disabled people could be paid less than the minimum wage ... CEO of Disability Rights UK said: “We face a crisis of disabled people’s poverty. Disabled people are: Twice as ... even when they are paid the minimum wage. We should be looking towards paying disabled people more, not less." She ...
Extension of Blue Badge Scheme from August 2019 to include those with hidden disabilities
17 June 2019 | News
... change, and blue badge holders will welcome the task force looking at enforcement. Time and time again we see ... being abused by people who don’t need them, which leaves disabled people unable to get out and about. Effective ...