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Did the National Disability Strategy look to address climate change and Covid?
09 February 2022 | News
The Oxford Disability Law and Policy Project has published its Up to the Challenge report examining the National Disability Strategy. To mark COP26 and Disability History ... November 2021, on whether the National Disability Strategy does enough to address the twin crises of climate change and ...
Covid, disability and racism commission launched
08 August 2022 | News
Disability Rights UK CEO Kamran Mallick is to chair a ... on COVID-19, Disablism and Systemic Racism to explore how the worst impacts of COVID-19 have fallen on Disabled ... people and organisations and scrutinise the Department of Health and Social Care’s policies and responses to the ...
Our response to the vote to postpone controversial cuts to ESA
17 November 2016 | News
... has only just been published is unfair and will make it much harder for disabled people to get into work. We urge ... step back’ and provide space for genuine consultation on how the disability employment gap can be halved.” Our response to ...
Baroness Campbell calls for human rights-busting Coronavirus powers to be switched off
28 September 2020 | News
... across the House wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the other place, to make this ... normally protected by the Children and Families Act, the Mental Health Act, and the Care Act. They were only intended ... by July, they reported they had stopped. According to the Disability Rights UK’s latest joint statement with ...
DPTAC to be retained
16 June 2013 | News
... huge amount has been achieved in recent years; there is much more to do. Working together with DPTAC providing high quality, independent, pan-disability support and our pragmatic approach, we can ... to the success of DPTAC. We can look to the future as to how best achieve the goal of a fully accessible transport ...
New Govt Work for Your Benefits Scheme
29 September 2013 | News
... actions needed. This could include, arranging occupational health visits, mental health support, housing support and stage these in a ... enabled the claimant to move closer to, and into, work. Disability Rights UK is deeply concerned that although ...
Our priorities for the new government
11 June 2017 | News
... good on manifesto commitments The promised review of the Mental Health Act should be co-produced with disabled people and ... The abolition of the bedroom tax The addition of the severe disability premium within Universal Credit and a new ...
Minister previews Disability Green Paper social security reforms
23 May 2021 | News
... for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson has given details of how the government plans to reform the social security ... system for Disabled people through its long-delayed Health and Disability Green Paper. He has also said that the Green ...
Diversity of the judiciary 2020 report published
30 September 2020 | News
A new report disclosing how the judiciary reflects society has been published by the ... government. Across all legal exercises, candidates with a disability represented 8% of applications and 7% of all ... are recruited and the diversity of the pool from which much of the judiciary is drawn – the legal professions. ...
Secret reviews into DWP deaths have more than doubled in three years
20 July 2022 | News
New figures show how the number of secret reviews into deaths of benefit ... (DWP) has more than doubled over the last three years, the Disability News Service (DNS) reports. They show how the DWP ... in the last few years. “And IPRs are just one part of a much longer history, documented in the Deaths by ...