Search results
1181-1190 of 3905 results
DR UK and allies write to Prime Minister about "ongoing assault on Disabled people's rights"
08 May 2024 | News
... Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Choices and Rights Disability Coalition, Disabled Peoples Action Group - ... Director, The William Gomes Podcast, Reclaim the Agenda, Mental Health Independent Support Team, Wiltshire Centre for ...
Our response to two consultations on the voluntary sector role in health and care
30 November 2015 | News
... to determine the future of voluntary sector involvement in health and care. The first consultation called for ... views on the current state of partnership working, and how closer collaboration could be fostered. The second ... partnership’ suite of grants. View consultation documents Disability Rights UK sent the following responses: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...