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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 ...
VODG raises concerns as HMRC "jumps the gun" on sleep in payments
19 August 2018 | News
... v Tomlinson-Blake Court of Appeal judgement on sleep in payments VODG, and wider sector bodies, have called on ... SCCS may result in HMRC opening an investigation into your pay practices. Following the Royal Mencap Society v ... VODG raises concerns as HMRC "jumps the gun" on sleep in payments ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
HSE vacancy
29 November 2022 | News
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – Non-Executive Director ... Safety Executive (HSE). HSE is a Crown Executive Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the DWP. HSE is the national ... on 22/12/22. For more information about the role and how to apply please click the link below. Health and Safety ...
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 ...
Complaining about local authority decisions
07 October 2022 | Resource
... assessments residential care assessments This factsheet does not cover complaints about decisions on housing benefit ... If you don't know the name of your councillor or MP or how to contact them you can find out from your local library ... Social Services Act 1970 the Secretary of State for Health has the power to step in where a local authority ...