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Disabled People Still Facing Mask Discrimination – DR UK writes to Chair of Police Chiefs Council
14 January 2021 | News
... proving they are exempt from wearing face coverings. Disability Rights UK has joined with Big Brother Watch, ... if they did not wear a mask. A recent Department of Health campaign stated: "you should never challenge anyone ... are exempt from wearing face coverings, due to physical or mental conditions. “Disabled people who can't wear face ...
Extra costs hit disabled people in all areas of life
19 February 2018 | News
... research by the charity Scope reveals that disabled people pay a financial penalty in life on everyday living costs – ... Read Scope press release On average, half of income goes on disability related costs 20% of disabled people pay over ... month extra Scope calls for a ‘complete rethink’ on how we tackle the ‘disability price tag Extra costs mean ...
A quiet August for I Can Make It so expect a lot from us in September
31 August 2017 | News
Not many updates from us in August. However, we’ve been working on a lot of different things ... to employment such as long-term worklessness, disability, mental health issues, being ex-offenders or ex-service personnel, ...
Call for evidence: Inquiry into social care funding in England
13 September 2018 | News
... the shortfalls in delivery and make recommendations on how future social care demands can be met in England. The ... are the funding challenges for social care in England, and how can they be overcome? Why have successive governments ... - the lives we want Securing the future: funding health and social care to the 2030s - Institute for Fiscal ...
Further austerity will cause more avoidable deaths of Disabled people, warns DPOs coalition
16 November 2022 | News
... left to cut.” The DPO Forum includes DPOs such as: Disability Rights UK Inclusion London Disabled People ... deterioration of people’s quality of life, physical and mental wellbeing and the loss of lives. “We are calling on the Government to show strategic leadership and compassion and protect Disabled ...
Our Into Higher Education has been updated
20 March 2024 | News
Into Higher Education is a guide for anyone with a health condition, learning difficulty or disability thinking about studying in higher education ... as whether colleges or universities will be accessible, how to choose a course and what support will be available. ...
Our response to the Litchfield review
12 December 2013 | News
... by section 10 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007. While Disability Rights UK welcomes some of the review’s ... poor standard of medical assessments carried out by Atos Healthcare Professionals. Instead, he advises that DWP ... Decision Makers is clearly too low. We believe, more fundamentally, that tinkering with the WCA will not make it work ...
Two-fifths of older adults in psychiatric wards got COVID
14 October 2020 | News
... Psychiatry claims that 15% of infected patients in the mental health wards died from the illness. The increased mortality ... looked at data from all 344 hospital patients across five mental health trusts in London aged over 65 or with young ...
Scrapping £20 week UC uplift slams the door in the face of six million
08 July 2021 | News
... costs of removing the increase would outweigh any savings. However, while the cut will force thousands of UC claimants ... Committee , the APPG of MPs on Poverty , APPG of MPs on Health , Joseph Rowntree Trust , Trussell Trust , Fabian ... and bishops , Key health and care bodies , and the Disability Benefits Consortium . The DBC report highlighted ...
DR UK statement on the new Government
13 July 2016 | News
... it misses out on people’s talents and contributions. It doesn’t need to be that way. We want, quite simply, ... our workplaces. That would benefit individuals living with disability or health conditions, our families, our communities and the UK ...