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108 Labour MPs Rebel to Halt Devastating Disability Benefits Cuts
24 June 2025 | News
... rebellion against the Government’s Green Paper disability benefit cuts with an amendment that could kill ... are made. The Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill is due to have its Second Reading in the ... published an assessment of the impact of these reforms on health or care needs; because the Government is still ...
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 Wales & Disability Rights UK cite “mass death and real suffering” of Disabled people in Wales at UK Covid-19 Inquiry
27 February 2024 | News
... of access to food and essential resources, collapse of health, care and independent living services, and the ... UK as a whole. They also cited government statistics which showed that Learning Disabled people, when age is taken out ... quality of its engagement with Disabled people was “fundamentally different” from the poor situation in ...
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 ...
Government set to double the number of work coaches in jobcentres by March 2021
07 July 2020 | News
... increasing the number of disabled people in employment. The disability employment gap remains high, with disabled people ... lower than that of non-disabled people. It’s not clear how effective even a doubling work coach numbers will be ... to see how generic work coaches with limited knowledge of health and disability and the huge barriers disabled people ...
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 ...
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 ...
Funding from charitable trusts
23 September 2024 | Resource
... considerably. Part A of the factsheet gives advice about how to apply to trusts. Part B lists trusts that may help ... Be clear about what you need the money for and how much you need Be concise. Write enough to say why you need ... institution in Great Britain. The student’s nationality does not matter and there is no age limit. Grants are ...
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 ...