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Safeguarding adults review slams ‘confused’ enquiry into learning-disabled men’s injuries
22 April 2018 | News
... fractures during the morning of 1 April 2015. Sussex Health Care, the company that runs Beech Lodge, has since ... were involved too late, it found, while allowing Sussex Health Care to take a lead role into determining events at ... had children been involved. “This case demonstrates how the approach to injuries inflicted on vulnerable adults ...
Government fails to restore disabled people’s rights
30 September 2020 | News
... rights of disabled children to education support. Over 100 disability and human rights organisations and over 500 ... joined by 28 peers, wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, asking for full Care ... care under any circumstances. It is a dire indication of how this government, on the verge of releasing its National ...
Adult social care in England: overview
13 March 2014 | News
... is important to understand this in the context of the wider healthcare system of acute and primary care. There are no ... changes radically. The report points out that government does not know if the limits of the capacity of the care ...
Our response to the spending review
27 June 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK want to see social support that puts ... and so we welcome the Government has taken this step. “However our welcome is tempered on two fronts - firstly the ... the spending review, it would appear that the Government does not plan to widen access to the social care system from ...
DPO consortium calls for BBC not to push the Red Button service
19 January 2020 | News
... The National Federation of the Blind UK (NFBUK) and Disability Rights UK is calling on the BBC to keep its Red ... 2020; * Immediate clarification and public scrutiny on how the BBC came to the decision to switch off the BBC Red ... people, who are not online, or do not use the internet much and other groups of people who are important for these ...
JETS scheme to help jobless overlooks disabled claimants
05 October 2020 | News
... offering a range of help, including specialist advice on how people can move into growing sectors, as well as CV and ... group’. So JETS excludes those UC claimants with a disability or long term health condition who have ‘a limited capability for ...
We want more disabled people on Boards
09 September 2013 | News
... Disability Rights UK would like to see a similar review which considers how to enable more disabled people to sit on Boards. We ... professionals with lived experience of disability or health conditions. We want more disabled people on Boards ...
Halving the disability employment gap could take 200 years
10 July 2016 | News
... two new reports demanding radical action on halving the disability employment gap. Learning and Work will be ... at IntoWork 2016 : Halving the Gap: Making the Work and Health Programme work for disabled people will detail our proposals on how the Government’s new flagship employment programme can ...
40% fear challenge without face masks - DR UK survey
17 June 2020 | News
... coverings on public transport, according to a new survey by Disability Rights UK. Nearly 40% of respondents said that ... wear a face covering. Just under half of these said that mental health conditions and breathing impairments would prevent ...
Congratulations to Leo Capella comedy king
21 November 2017 | News
... the Nell of Old Drury , Covent Garden and raised money for Disability Rights UK. Leo says: “clever projects led by ... need money... ...aside from being my work place DR UK does a lot of clever projects that helps disabled people be ... in different ways that deserves cash to continue.” We at Disability Rights UK know that Leo is being modest and from ...