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Human Rights Watch to visit UK to gather evidence on institutional abuse
05 October 2023 | News
... gather evidence. The team will have a focus on people with mental health issues and learning disabilities as HRW has become ... high death rates have been exposed by the UK press and by disability charities in recent months. The visit comes just ...
Invest In Disabled People, DR UK Tells Chancellor
25 October 2024 | News
... past 14 years we have experienced: lower social security payments alongside hostile benefit processes; reductions in vital services and support such as social care, health and Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND; disproportionate hardship and death during ...
Scrap the Coronavirus Act provisions
24 September 2020 | News
... reduce the rights of disabled people to care, education and mental health protections. No other group of people had their ... this pandemic has had on disabled people. ONS figures show that disabled people have made up two thirds of all ...
Disability coalition calls for talks with prime minister over human catastrophe
27 February 2018 | News
... published last August, made a number of recommendations but disability organisations which gave evidence to the UN say ... Association; People First (learning disability); National Mental Health System Service Users Network; UK Disabled People’s ...
Liz Sayce speaks at the RI World Congress
25 October 2016 | News
... Q&A session (she is the third speaker) Liz is speaking on how disabled people can define our own experience and create ... instance, people with dementia, or learning difficulties or mental health issues. DRILL is run by a partnership of ...
Reclaiming Our Futures Week of Action
28 August 2013 | News
... Fuel Poverty Action, the Network for Social Change, the Mental Health resistance network and The Edge Fund. DPAC says - ... UK Disabled People’s Manifesto setting out our vision of how the resources, structures and institutions of our ...
CQC Demand System Change in 'Out of Sight - Who Cares?' Report
21 October 2020 | News
... community-based capacity and capability across education, health and care for people with a learning disability, autistic people and/or a mental health condition, after a review found undignified ...
New £500 Test and Trace Support payment for people claiming qualifying benefits who are required to self-isolate
20 September 2020 | News
... for the £500 payment are contained in updated Pubic Health England guidance - Stay at home guidance for ... without adequate sick pay, says TUC Covid-19 pandemic shows our benefits system unfit for purpose, says TUC – available from disabilityrightsuk.org. New £500 Test and Trace Support ...
Hackney Council sued after council home caused lung disease
26 January 2023 | News
... home. Now Max is taking the council to court over how it treated him and how sarcoidosis has impacted his ... been caused by exposure to mould . In December 2022, Disability Rights UK, as part of the Homes for Us Alliance ... Disability Rights UK, said: "As Disabled people, we pay too much for way too little. At the same time as increasing ...
Government’s independent reviewer did not know of coroner’s report blaming suicide on the WCA
09 November 2015 | News
... (WCA) that warned it put at risk the lives of people with mental health conditions – to the expert they commissioned to ... WCA for the government in June 2010 believes he was not shown the coroner’s report: “I cannot recall the report. ...