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Appeal granted against court judgment excluding disabled students from universal credit
17 August 2022 | News
... assessment and established a limited capability for work. However, permission to appeal the High Court judgment has ... are not able to supplement their income with UC. “UC does not duplicate student finance as the DWP seeks to ... UC regulations. But other types of awards that cover extra disability-related costs are rightly excluded as deductible ...
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 ...
Scottish Government announces rent freeze
06 September 2022 | News
... citizens from the cost-of-living crisis. Mikey Erhardt from Disability Rights UK said: "Nicola Sturgeon's plans will ... crisis currently unfolding. Disabled renters are already paying too much to live in dangerous, inaccessible homes. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
Data Protection Bill Proposes “Wholly Unnecessary” Surveillance Measures That Are A “Disproportionate Violation” Of Benefit Claimants Privacy
16 January 2024 | News
... and safeguards, making it more difficult for people to know how their data is being used, how decisions affecting them ... benefits for no good reason, resulting in the inability to pay heating bills, purchase medical supplies, or afford ... of members of the public, with disproportionate detrimental impact upon people in the welfare system and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...