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  • DR UK statement on leaving the DCC

    17 June 2021 | News

    Dear members, For the past 18 months Disability Rights UK has been working on an internal strategy review. We have been looking at how we can work more deeply, with greater listening, and ... the umbrella of the DCC as an organisation. There is so much further to go for Disabled people to be given full ...

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  • The University of Stirling to study the impact of place and stigma on older Disabled adults

    23 August 2022 | News

    ... Place-based Ageing (ISPA)’ will investigate and identify how stigma related to age, disability, and where someone lives creates additional ... a UK-wide network of organisations from housing, health, social care and the third sector, to road test this ...

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  • High Court judgment denies two million ESA claimants £20 per week uplift due to “justifiable” disability discrimination

    22 February 2022 | News

    ... people and so was unjustified. The case was backed by the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) - of which DR UK is a ... each receiving a total of £1,500 benefit arrears. However, the High Court has ruled that the exclusion of ESA ... received the benefit. It is very hard to understand why not paying the same £20 to those on ESA and other legacy ...

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  • Jodey Whiting’s Death: A Tragic Reminder of DWP Failures Amidst New Threats to Disabled People’s Support

    06 June 2025 | News

    Our focus at Disability Rights UK is intensely on the current threats of ... Pring, whose work (including his book “ The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid ... but a matter of life and death. We demand: A Fundamental Culture Shift:  The DWP must move beyond a ...

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  • Survey for everyone with lived experience of a personal health budget

    15 April 2019 | News

    NHS England has commissioned Quality Health to run a survey, closing 14 May 2019 to gather feedback about people’s experiences of personal health budgets and integrated personal budgets. Go to survey ... to commissioners to help them improve their personal health budgets for NHS Continuing Healthcare – co-produced ...

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  • Getting Things Changed final research report available

    30 May 2018 | News

    ... people, indicating what needs to be done to remove these. Disability Rights UK was a partner on this project. The ... preferably led by disabled people, to monitor and report on how they’re adhering to the Equality Act 2010. Disability ... the evidence that many public institutions could do much better to promote the rights of disabled people and ...

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  • European report says benefit levels inadequate

    29 January 2014 | News

    ... European Committee of Social Rights has found that the UK does not conform to Article 12 of the European Social ... to Social Security, where it found that the situation in UK does not conform to the Charter on the ground that: the ... inadequate. The Committee wants the next report to indicate how the new UK welfare and pension reforms have affected the ...

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  • Council cuts affect sustainability

    06 June 2013 | News

    ... that the Department for Communities and Local Government does not properly understand the overall impact on local ... do enough work with other government departments to model how funding changes may adversely affect other areas of the ... about the viability of some of them. “The Department does not have a clear strategy for responding to and dealing ...

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  • Clone of We're Hiring - Trustee Opportunity

    01 July 2024 | News

    ... help strengthen the voice of Disabled people and support Disability Rights UK to continue to build the organisation ... of lived experiences including: learning difficulties, mental health conditions, neurodiversity, deafness, hearing ...


  • Clone of We're Hiring - Trustee Opportunity

    01 July 2024 | News

    ... help strengthen the voice of Disabled people and support Disability Rights UK to continue to build the organisation ... of lived experiences including: learning difficulties, mental health conditions, neurodiversity, deafness, hearing ...