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Join Our Online Event: Sharing Information on Disability!
20 March 2024 | News
... whether to share information on your impairments or health conditions with education providers, training providers or employers? What did you decide? Disability Rights UK, in collaboration with the Disabled ... of Disabled people and reflect on our rights and how organisations can create more inclusive cultures. ...
Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
25 April 2025 | Resource
Personal independence payment (PIP) is a benefit for people between the ages of 16 ... to get around. In Scotland, PIP has been replaced by adult disability payment . You can start your PIP claim by phone; ... contains PIP rates Personal independence payment and adult disability payment in hospital Challenging PIP decisions ...
DHSC's training plan must involve people with learning disabilities, says DRUK
04 November 2019 | News
... The call comes in response to the Department of Health and Social Care’s announcement that the Government will introduce mandatory learning disability training for all health and social care staff, ... the learning disabled people forced to live in long-stay mental health hospitals. Reviews are welcome but must lead ...
How I left the nest and moved into my lifetime home
13 September 2018 | News
DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick talks about how he left home and the current shortage of suitable ... affordable place to live is difficult and often impossible. How I left the nest and moved into my lifetime home ...
Deprivation of Liberty safeguards
07 October 2014 | News
... for judging whether the living arrangements made for a mentally incapacitated person amount to a deprivation of ... whatever the reason (from dementia to coma, from a mental health crisis to a learning difficult). This means getting ... reality’ - A best interests assessor gives their take on how the 'Cheshire West' ruling is impacting on frontline ...
MPs warn that social care vision needs cash
08 August 2022 | News
... clear throughout our inquiry: the adult social care sector does not have enough funding either in the here and now, or ... It urges ministers to produce ten year plans detailing how it will deliver the vision outlined in the People at the ... or on wider structural issues in the sector, the fundamental problem is that there continues to be a large funding ...
Disabled people’s contribution to the economy
14 December 2014 | News
... to the economy Press release – for immediate use Disability Rights UK and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation are hosting a seminar to explore how economic policies can be developed which support ... mercy of cuts up to now, with more to come; but are also much less likely to be in paid employment than non-disabled ...
PIP Fails – new MS Society report
26 January 2020 | News
A new research report by the MS Society shows that more than half of people with MS surveyed didn’t ... “PIP provides vital support to people with MS and helps pay for things such as adapted cars and help around the ... because of an application and assessment process that does not work for people with a fluctuating condition such ...
MPs quiz Minister on smearing disabled people
10 December 2013 | News
... campaign, called We Do More Than You Think. The report shows that disabled people are major contributors to our ... has failed most disabled people who were formerly on health related benefits but found fit for work and the ... stories about disabled people as scroungers makes it that much more difficult for them to convince employers to take ...
New guidance on personal budget payment cards
23 June 2019 | News
New guidance on social care personal budget says pre-payment cards should never be the only option The ... Personal (TLAP), have published a document on the use of payment cards in social care. It looks at how payment cards are being used by local authorities as a ...