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The Universal Credit and PIP Bill: Our Concerns
20 June 2025 | News
... the Government's Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. In defending the Green Paper proposals, Liz ... transitional cover as ‘one of the most generous ever’ . However, this cover compares poorly with the equivalent ... short-term assistance, which allows payments of Scottish disability benefits to continue at the rate of the earlier ...
We demand proactive EHRC on disability rights
11 July 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK challenges the Equality and Human ... to miss out on education, skills and work, and having much less choice over our day to day lives. We do not ... Where the commission has done useful pieces of work on disability equality - for instance very positive formal ...
It’s Time To “Stop the Witch-Hunt” Against Flexible Working, Says Coalition of Unions and Equality Campaigners
07 October 2024 | News
... recent weeks, we have seen relentless scaremongering about how new legislation on flexible working will harm UK ... at our public services. In the midst of a staffing crisis, health, education and social care workers are leaving due to ... to attack the government’s wider plan to Make Work Pay. It’s time we called it out. “Improving access ...
Disability Rights UK responds to accessible railways report
24 February 2022 | News
... target in the sense that technology, our understanding of disability and, indeed, of accessibility is constantly ... said: “This report pulls no punches by saying that disability access is viewed as an expensive add-on within ... side-lined by the industry. “We are clear that the much needed changes have to acknowledge the importance of ...
Access to work wait times leading to lost jobs
11 January 2023 | News
... Pensions policy. An employment advisor at Scope shared how these wait times are causing Disabled employees to lose ... 38,000 people were paid Access to Work grants last year. However, the average "clearance" time for applications ... employment as a Disabled person, but they also cause so much unnecessary distress. The Department for Work and ...
Care and Support Alliance Responds to Spending Review
03 September 2019 | News
... spending this autumn, as many had warned was likely. “However, the care system is in such bad shape that this new ... of sick and disabled adults, older people in declining health and family carers, and for our many dedicated paid ... its pledges.” Sue Bott, Head of Policy and Research at Disability Rights UK said: “Accepting that the Government ...
Ex-Health Minister denies responsibility for contaminated blood scandal
27 July 2021 | News
... which were found to be contaminated during his time as Health Minister. Around 3,000 people, many Disabled, died ... and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s. Lord Clarke was the Health Minister between 1982 and 1985. He said information ... treatments patients were given. The Inquiry continues. Ex-Health Minister denies responsibility for contaminated blood ...
Industrial Strategy a lost opportunity by BEIS to utilise public procurement
27 November 2017 | News
... Philip Connolly, policy and development manager at Disability Rights UK said: “The good news is that the Industrial Strategy does reference the Government’s target of moving a million ... participation of disabled people in apprenticeships by 20%. However, despite the acknowledgement that public sector ...
Disability Rights UK working with UCL Centre for Access to Justice
30 January 2018 | News
Disability Rights UK recently completed a training day with ... was really great, I think everyone who attended got a much better idea of means vs non-means tested benefits and a ... To learn more about training offered by Disability Rights UK please contact jason.jaspal@disabilityrightsuk.org Disability Rights UK working with ...
Sacked mother of Disabled children wins tribunal
23 June 2021 | News
... made and relied upon [by the appellant] … are still very much supported by the evidence presented to us of current ...