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UK Social Security System Is “Consciously Cruel” and “Ruining Lives” Finds Amnesty UK
28 April 2025 | News
... social security system. The unique research is an extensive look through the lens of human rights violations across our ... The social security system fails to meet the real needs of Disabled people Amnesty highlights that: Households with a disabled adult or child face additional costs of over £975 ...
Report Into Public Attitudes to Inequalities Launched
31 January 2024 | News
... Attitudes to Inequalities and their Impacts.' The poll looks into the different forms of inequality people in ... 62% also worry about social and political inequalities. Looking at inequalities between groups, people are most ...
Strategic partners programme March 2013 update
27 March 2013 | News
... case for mainstreaming. In response to this there may be a seat for us on the advisory panel. For the time being, ... preventative care Dilnot funding proposals and working age disabled people The inquiry is supported by Scope. For more ... local government and disability. We want to make sure that disabled people’s voices are leading it. Financial ...
Bedroom tax savings. Disabled people suffer most.
09 October 2013 | News
... Heigham: My Lords, two-thirds of the families affected are disabled—fact. Half of those in a recent sample are ... there are no smaller properties to move to—fact. So disabled families cannot work, pay, obtain financial support ... issues buried there. I will just point out that, when you look at the disabled figures, and if you look at the people ...
Disabled people's poverty worse than govt estimates
17 September 2018 | News
... of poverty for the UK , takes a different approach to looking at poverty in the UK. The report looks at how much ... the 14.2 million people in poverty live in families with a disabled person (6.9 million people equal to 48.3% of those ... a disability.” “The existing evidence demonstrates that disabled people face extra costs to do the same things as ...
Removing barriers to physical activity for disabled people
12 November 2017 | News
Minister announces new partnership to support disabled people into physical activity. Read press release Former Minister of State for Disabled People, Work and Health Penny Mordaunt MP unveiled ... lack of information, support and physical access. We look forward to being part of this partnership with ...
DR UK welcomes new Disability Minister
11 May 2015 | News
Disability Rights welcomes the appointment of a Minister for Disabled People and we look forward to meeting the new minister Justin Tomlinson at ... manifesto aim of halving the disability employment gap. We look forward to working with the minister on this important ...
Four in ten banks fail Disabled customers, says Which?
27 July 2021 | News
Banks are failing to support their Disabled customers as widespread branch closures and the ... has found. The consumer champion surveyed nearly 1,500 Disabled banking customers about their experiences. Despite ... deaf or hard of hearing customers can only access hearing loops at 94 per cent of branches. For all other banks Which? ...
ESA calls for Disabled astronauts
22 February 2021 | News
... Space Agency (ESA) is encouraging applications from Disabled astronauts for its latest recruitment drive . The ESA is looking for four to six new recruits, and has asked the ... make ‘para astronauts’ a future reality. ESA calls for Disabled astronauts ...
Dis Life: Insisting on helping a disabled person who doesn't ask for help is ableism
06 January 2023 | News
... loudly, in a high pitched voice: “Oh! Are you ok?!” I looked around me, to find out what ill fortune had befallen ... our wheelchairs, essentially an extension of our delicious disabled bodies, without permission. We tend to welcome such ... are still really ableist. If you wouldn’t say it to a non-disabled person, don’t say it to us. If you would say it ...