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PM Response to APPG on Disability
22 July 2020 | News
... MP, expressing serious concerns about the treatment of disabled people during the coronavirus crisis and asking for ... housing and employment schemes, to include and benefit disabled people.” We welcome the Prime Minister’s ... Strategy is ambitious and far reaching, truly including disabled people in society. It is imperative that the ...
Scotland introduces new Child Disability Payment
01 August 2021 | News
... to get people’s feedback to ensure it meets the needs of disabled children and their families before expanding the ...
The Equality Act and Disabled people
22 December 2022 | Resource
... history of impairment - this applies if you are no longer disabled but met the definition in the past. There is no ... and are put at a disadvantage when compared with non-disabled people. You can be discriminated against: Directly ... to access offices or venues which are not on the ground floor making changes to “physical features” – for ...
Disabled childrens bedroom tax amendment defeated
29 January 2014 | News
An amendment to the bedroom tax regulations exempting disabled children from the bedroom tax was defeated in the ... but also recommended that the law be changed to include all disabled children where it would be inappropriate for them ... Disabled childrens bedroom tax amendment defeated ...
Closing Disability Gaps at Work Conference
28 November 2016 | News
On 31st October, 2016 the UK Government published Improving Lives – The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper and began a national consultation on work and health which will run until 17th February 2017.
This timely conference brings together researchers, policy-makers and practitioners to contribute to the consultation and wider debate. In particular, it considers how the Government’s strategy to halve the disability employment gap can be achieved where past and existing polices and approaches have failed.
Learning disabilities: Time for Change Report
25 November 2014 | News
The ‘Time for Change’ report, commissioned by NHS England examines the future of services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism
Following Winterbourne the Government pledged to move those with learning disabilities from inappropriate institutions and into community care by June 2014.
Studying in UK as a disabled student
21 August 2018 | News
Caroline Mathiasen has written an article aimed at disabled overseas students who wish to study in the UK. Read ... Her informative article neatly covers: Your rights as a disabled person Your University’s office for disabled students Adjustments Scholarships and loans She has ...
The world's most famous disabled people
17 December 2015 | News
... written a blog highlighting some of the world's most famous disabled people. You may be surprised that some of the ... have a disability. View the blog The world's most famous disabled people ...
IFS paper on disability benefit trends
21 May 2015 | News
The changing characteristics of UK disability benefit recipients
This Institute for Fiscal Studies research paper finds that:
Spending across Great Britain on disability benefits in 2014–15 totalled £13.5 billion, half the level of disability benefit spending when it was at its peak in 1995–96.
The overall number of individuals receiving disability benefits has fallen slightly since the mid-1990s.
Gym instructor training for disabled people
12 April 2015 | News
... a multi award winning bespoke programme designed to engage disabled people in the fitness industry as gym instructors and gym users The scheme provides disabled people with free, accessible fitness industry ... work placement where instructors work to encourage more disabled people in the local community to participate in ...