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Our concerns about proposed tax credit reforms
22 October 2015 | News
... off if proposed changes to tax credits are implemented Disability Rights UK believes that disabled people who are ... the additional costs of a disabled child. Research shows that families with disabled children are more likely to ... than other families and that it costs three times as much to raise a disabled child . See also our Submission to ...
Britain’s housing crisis: slow progress and a radical quick fix
13 September 2018 | News
... letters on this topic DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick talks about how he left home and the current shortage of suitable ... inclusion, employment and maintaining good physical and mental health. With the number of new communities and housing ...
Students report human rights achievements
26 April 2015 | News
Equally Ours aims to help everyone understand how human rights benefit all of us in the UK. Disability ... Read the four reports: Disability Rights Considerations in Mental Health Law: An interview with Peter Edwards - Suzanna ...
80% of Disabled college children infected with contaminated blood died, Inquiry hears
23 June 2021 | News
A public Inquiry has heard how nearly 100 pupils at a specialist school for Disabled ... we just couldn’t understand why they were pushing us so much to have all these injections. “At the time we were ... An undated consent form allegedly signed by his mother was shown to the Inquiry. Webster said his mother had no memory ...
Government proposes SSP extension to those earning less than lower earnings limit
15 July 2019 | News
... has set out proposed new measures “to transform how employers support and retain disabled staff and those with a health condition". Under the new measures the lowest paid employees would be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) for the first time, while small businesses may be ...
DR UK reaction to the Chancellor's Autumn Statement
17 November 2022 | News
... benefits in line with September’s inflation from April. Disability Rights UK, as part of the DPO Forum England, has ... gap for years due to a lack of meaningful increases. £150 doesn’t touch the sides. Fuel costs are set to continue to ... he will “protect the most vulnerable”. Today, he has shown that he is not willing to go far enough to make good on ...
Kamran Mallick's Christmas and New Year message
18 December 2019 | News
... welcomed some new faces. Our new structure places us in a much stronger position to represent the disabled community ... the lives of all disabled people and those with long term health care needs. We want to create and drive a vision of ... with no more need to book in advance. We are focusing in on how we can better support Disabled Peoples Organisations ...
DWP WCA Maximus contract statement: Our response
30 October 2014 | News
Disability Rights UK receives huge numbers of distressed ... Assessment; and be met by an assessment process that knows how to treat disabled people, to make adjustments and to ... in the assessments (which we disagree with). Where DR UK does engage in work with any company we insist that we will ...
Women and Equalities Select Committee: pandemic has had “profoundly adverse effects” on disabled people’s access to services
21 December 2020 | News
... access to food, and potentially discriminatory practices in health and social care services. Existing systemic problems ... communication impossible for people who lip read, and much more difficult for BSL users and disabled people who ... and urgently bring forward reforms which address fundamental problems of funding, consistency of support, ...
Disability and Migration network condemns Rwanda Bill
23 April 2024 | News
... of Lords delaying and amending the bill many times. The Disability and Migration Network , a network made up of ... of Disabled people”, causes “trauma and preventable mental distress”, and makes us “feel like criminals” ... access our most basic human needs including food, housing, healthcare, and safety. During this cost of living crisis, ...