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The Disability Rights Handbook: A Brief History
18 January 2024 | News
... rights in general, and the state benefits available for Disabled people in particular. The Handbook was written for Disabled people; it is still written in the second person. ... The focus, however, was on the state benefits available to Disabled people – a focus we have maintained to this day. ...
Taxi Tax Hits Disabled People Disproportionately
15 April 2025 | News
... payments are cut. “A move that impacts on and sidelines Disabled people, all in the name of propping up a faltering ... said “This is a stealth tax that disproportionately hits Disabled people who need taxis, so we call on the Government to scrap the taxi tax and protect Disabled passengers.” Taxi Tax Hits Disabled People ...
Disabled energy user forced onto meter
28 November 2022 | News
A Disabled woman has faced what she described as ... “I told them, I cannot have a prepayment meter, I’m disabled and I can’t move around well at all. I told them ... much more expensive than paying for energy on a contract. Disabled people struggle to access places where they can top ...
Disability Pride Month: Resistance in Action
09 July 2025 | News
... 5 years later, in 1995. There are currently 16 million Disabled people in the UK, with Disability Pride Month ... our impairments as individual burdens and instead celebrate Disabled people’s contribution to society and our ... assisted suicide without adequate safeguards to protect Disabled people, prisoners and homeless people. However, ...
ODI interviews minister for disabled people
16 August 2015 | News
... of disability issues soon after he became Minister for Disabled People. The series of short videos include: Becoming the new Minister for Disabled People – Video Question 1 Key priorities for the Minister for Disabled People – Video Question 2 The role of Minister ...
Risk of major disability poverty rise
12 June 2013 | News
... for living in poverty – with estimates of 40% of disabled children living in poverty and a third of disabled adults living in poverty. The NSO figures reveal that the higher living costs of disabled people are not taken into account [1] by the ...
Attitudes to disabled people since Paralympics
08 July 2014 | News
Nearly 70% of the British public feel attitudes towards disabled people have improved since the London Paralympic ... positive outcomes and indicators of a change in attitude: Disabled people are moving into work or training at the rate ... by 2019. London’s 8,500 buses are now fully low-floor accessible and all of London’s 22,000 black cabs have ...
Benefit cuts affect disabled people's independence
07 April 2013 | News
PRESS RELEASE: REDUCING BENEFIT ENTITLEMENT TO A MILLION DISABLED PEOPLE WILL NOT IMPROVE THEIR PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE ... roll out of PIP has been completed. This means 450,000 disabled people will have no disability benefit entitlement at all and 510,000 disabled people will have a reduced award.[ 1 ] Disability ...
Disability Confident Britain? DWP progress report
09 December 2014 | News
... on its progress to increase employment opportunities for disabled people 1 year after we set out our plans in the ... out my ambition to increase employment opportunities for disabled people. One year on, we are reporting on our ... so I am very pleased that there are 259,000 more disabled people in employment than one year ago, over 3 ...
Govt statistics missing 1 million disabled people
14 July 2014 | News
Official statistics missing 1 million disabled people in poverty says new report The authors of a ... Joseph Rowntree Foundation are to present their findings on disabled people and routes out of poverty to parliament at ... the report’s authors said, “The level of poverty among disabled people in Britain is not inevitable. Even ...