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Disabled people in housing crisis
10 May 2018 | News
... Executive of Disability Rights UK said: 'This research shows some of the fundamental issues we face on a day-to-day basis. 'Appropriate ... people are less likely to seek support from hard pressed health and social care providers. The same is true if we ...
New DRILL research programme
11 February 2015 | News
... communities and backgrounds, living with a wide range of mental and physical health conditions and impairments’. Disability Wales Rhian ... in place the required resources in each of the nations. How can people get involved? The project will be launched in ...
Education and Training Jargon Buster
27 June 2024 | Resource
There is a lot of jargon related to disability and health conditions. Here is a list with some of the common ... stressful or uncomfortable, find it hard to understand how other people think or feel, get anxious or upset about ... defines a person as disabled if they have: “a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term ...
Get Out Get Active goes live
30 September 2016 | News
... very ambitious initiative designed to increase physical and mental wellbeing by supporting physically inactive people around the UK to improve their health. “We want to make getting active appealing, ... major investment. The programme has the potential to change how we encourage, enable and engage more people through ...
DWP should recruit a large scale panel of disabled people with experience of social security which it can consult and draw from to work on detailed projects, says SSAC
19 January 2021 | News
... a new wide-ranging and detailed report that focuses on how the DWP involves disabled people when developing, ... to use such technology, for example because the software does not work for them, or because of lack of skills, or ... progress. In addition, a non-executive member of the Departmental Board should be given responsibility for championing ...
Discrimination: Thomas Cook ordered to pay £7,500
06 October 2014 | News
... a disabled woman win £7,500 from Thomas Cook for unlawful disability discrimination Janice Campbell was one of 1600 ... View judgement . Discrimination: Thomas Cook ordered to pay £7,500 ...
Report offers WCA and work support alternative
08 April 2014 | News
... to act now. The report : Examines what works and what doesn’t for sick and disabled people in other countries, ... everyone to be included. Lays out an entirely new vision of how an assessment for “sickness benefits” might work, ... are not adequately supported in our present system. Disability Rights UK welcomes this report and its ...
Little evidence to back up Universal Credit introduction - biggest welfare reform in 50 years
07 March 2018 | News
... responsible to take it on faith that UC will deliver the much improved employment outcomes they claim for the vast ... Minister in charge, I would have either rejected or ignored much of it entirely as totally incomprehensible. They were ... for more detailed information you can order a copy of the Disability Rights Handbook from our shop Little evidence to ...
DWP loses severe disability premium case
29 January 2020 | News
... for Work and Pensions loses court case over severe disability premium The Court of Appeal has dismissed the ... UC), would receive retrospective and ongoing recompense. However, the Government chose to recompense TP and AR and ... whilst appealing both judgments, increased the top-up payments but only provided recompense of £120 per month ...
Student Days - A Memoir Piece on Personal Assistants
16 January 2024 | News
... of writing reminiscing on her student days, weaving in how important Personal Assistants can be for Disabled ... work in a carpet factory when I was doing my occupational health, as well as VD outpatients’ clinic and a secure ... weekend. Both Rick and I experienced the medical model of disability, however we lived the social model of disability. ...