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Extension of Blue Badge Scheme from August 2019 to include those with hidden disabilities
17 June 2019 | News
People with "hidden disabilities" including autism and mental health problems are set for a major boost when they are ... and ensure Blue Badges are used correctly. Sue Bott, Disability Rights UK’s Head of Policy, said “We are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Safeguarding vulnerable claimants: Work and Pensions Committee launches new inquiry
26 July 2023 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee of MPs is to examine how the DWP supports vulnerable benefit claimants and ... has a duty to safeguard “vulnerable people”, and if it does not, whether it should. It is set to take evidence from ... DWP safeguarding, after decade of deaths available from disabilitynewsservice.com. See also our related news ...
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, ...
New Personal Health Budgets and NHS Continuing Health Care factsheet
09 July 2017 | News
If you have a primary healthcare need, you can receive free care and support funded by the National Health Service NHS to enable you to meet your healthcare ... a "continuing care package" if they have needs arising from disability, accident or illness that can't be met by ...
New payment for people on low incomes self-isolating in highest risk areas
26 August 2020 | News
... with high incidence of COVID-19 are to benefit from a new payment scheme. From 1 September, payments of up to £182 ... Pendle and Oldham to assess the performance consider how effectively vulnerable people have been reached, and consider how far it has helped reduce transmission of the virus in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...