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  • Universal Credit Failing Millions says House of Lords Committee

    30 July 2020 | News

    ... the Universal Credit system. This follows an inquiry where Disability Rights UK provided written evidence  and ... standard allowance in response to the Covid-19 pandemic shows that the previous level of awards was too low. The ... nature of the Universal Credit sanction regime, which does not help people into work but is the cause of ...

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  • DR UK comments on the government response to the Taylor review

    12 February 2018 | News

    ... “The recommendations were not in the main specific to disability except for the right to return to work following ... to statutory sick pay (SSP), although improvements in health and well-being at work are clearly related. “There ... (e.g. through the extension of flexible work, pages 42-43). However, enhancing equality appears only to be one of a ...

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  • Centring Young Disabled People's Voices: DR UK's 2024 Conference!

    27 November 2024 | News

    For this year's annual Disability Rights UK conference, we focused on the theme of young Disabled people's voices and how to create a more representative, intersectional movement. Read on to learn more about how the event went, with all the speeches uploaded down ...

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  • Two-thirds of frontline DWP staff don’t have enough time to handle safeguarding concerns carefully and correctly

    21 June 2024 | News

    ... part, including hundreds who work in job centres. They show that: 67% of DWP staff who had direct contact with ... has a duty to safeguard “vulnerable people”, and if it does not, whether it should. Only last month , the DWP ... the hands of work coaches . “This could only endanger the health, safety and wellbeing of disabled claimants. ...

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  • 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 ...


  • Advance and KeyRing merge

    02 April 2014 | News

    ... local networks for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems, are merging this month (April). Tim Cooper, ... chances of people with learning disabilities and those with mental health problems.” Karyn Kirkpatrick, chief ...

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  • Disability Benefits Without the Fight campaign launched: the right to request an appropriate medical assessor

    29 September 2021 | News

    Scope has launched a Disability Benefits Without the Fight (#WithoutTheFight) ... for Work and Pensions, signed by DR UK and several other disability organisations says: “When applying for ... far too many disabled people get assessed by someone who doesn’t understand their condition. Disabled people are ...

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  • Making local communities inclusive

    10 September 2014 | News

    Inclusive Communities Disability Rights UK has published new materials on making ... and politically. These inclusive communities have better health, improved economic development, stronger political ... people to create inclusive regeneration developments and much fairer responses to hate crime – and more. But often ...

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  • Ethos Disabled Students Guide

    07 February 2018 | News

    ... have also fact-checked information regarding benefits with Disability Rights UK, which means that you can be confident it's correct. Much of the other content included in the guide comes from ...

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  • Austerity cuts killed tens of thousands from 2010 onwards

    21 October 2021 | News

    ... in BMJ Open found that the joint impact of cuts to healthcare, public health and social care since 2010 found ... government makes noises about a move back to austerity to pay for Covid measures, it needs to stop and think about the ... is inhumane. The Chancellor has recently spoken about how inhumanity can rob us of the people we love the most. ...

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