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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 ...
DWP admits Access to Work is overwhelmed by workload but rejects meeting
24 August 2022 | News
... concerns in a regular meeting with the Cabinet Office’s disability unit, the DWP said it was recruiting and training ... up work are now treated as a priority, the department said. However, DWP does not have a public briefing to share and does not ...
Almost two-thirds of working age benefit claimants reported financial strain during first wave of Covid 19: new research report
22 February 2021 | News
... living and the amount of benefit they received. Findings showed that almost 60% of new benefit claimants and 43% of ... held up through the first wave of the pandemic, but fundamental issues remain in terms of the adequacy of payment ... of Covid-19: new Inclusion London research report Key health and care bodies say keeping and extending the £20 ...
Court hears disabled activist’s challenge to ‘cataclysmic’ cuts to out-of-work disability benefits
17 December 2024 | News
... court in London heard a legal challenge that aims to expose how the last Conservative government used a “sham ... to try to push through “cataclysmic” cuts to disability benefits of nearly £3 billion over four years. ... make the same overall level of savings but has yet to say how it will do this and if it will implement the WCA cuts. ...
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 ...
Government will not proceed with the Conservative proposals on PIP voucher scheme
16 October 2024 | News
... system by suggesting that regular personal independence payments (PIP) be replaced with one-off grants or vouchers ... which helps people afford the extra costs of living with a disability, which has been shown to be an additional £1,010 a month to have the same ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...