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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Adjustments for Disabled students and apprentices
26 June 2024 | Resource
... impairments Learning difficulties Medical conditions Mental health condition Physical impairments Specific learning ... often say this is a useful way of seeing examples. However it' important to remember that ‘disability’ only ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...