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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ian Duncan Smith gives reasons for resigning
18 March 2016 | News
... were placed within a Budget that benefits higher earning taxpayers. They should have instead been part of a wider ... to the working age benefit bill. There has been too much emphasis on money saving exercises and not enough ... I hope as the government goes forward you can look again, however, at the balance of the cuts you have insisted upon ...
General Election campaign fails to be accessible for Disabled people
05 June 2024 | News
... and announced the date of the 2024 General election. Many disability commentators and charities were quick to notice ... contained in a photo or graphic. There is also concern that much of the campaign literature popping through letterboxes ... and Pensions refused to release a report, which would have shown which of its websites and other digital services, ...
The University of Stirling to study the impact of place and stigma on older Disabled adults
22 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 ...
Why cap beneficial Access to Work?
13 July 2015 | News
... for benefits The Government’s welcome plan to halve the disability employment gap means that policies right across ... Allowance, from accessible transport to effective health and social care – need to support that ambition. ... their children and families overall, and the tax payer. Why cap beneficial Access to Work? ...
Access to Work final evidence session
23 October 2014 | News
... the award decision-making and review processes The level of disability awareness of DWP staff administering the scheme ... "support workers" Referral routes into the Workplace Mental Health Support Service; and The AtW employer cost-sharing ...