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Co-production at a Glance!
11 April 2024 | News
At Disability Rights UK, we are embarking on a journey to embed ... part of our work, supporting co-production as an approach. However, we want to go further and ensure that we are truly ... part of our work, supporting co-production as an approach. However, we want to go further and ensure that we are truly ...
Cabinet office fails to engage with DPOs
28 January 2019 | News
... involving officials from Cabinet Office, the Office for Disability Issues and ‘a small group of academics and ... Rights UK John McArdle: Black Triangle Denise McKenna: Mental Health Resistance Network Dr Sally Witcher OBE: CEO ...
MPs demand better protection for disabled claimants on DLA/PIP who claim DHPs
11 January 2016 | News
... net, defined as: Council Tax support Discretionary Housing Payments Local welfare assistance schemes With regard to Discretionary Housing Payments the report says “7. It was not the Government’s ... extra costs incurred by the applicant as a result of their disability. The guidance must also prohibit local ...
Disability Wales Celebrates 50-year anniversary
26 October 2022 | News
... association of Disabled peoples organisations in Wales- Disability Wales, celebrated its 50 years anniversary with their first in-person event in over two years. Disability Wales ’ annual general meeting was be chaired ... to reflect on what has been accomplished to progress disability rights and equality in Wales. As well as offer ...
Care Act Guidance and Regulations Response
14 August 2014 | News
Disability Rights UK have submitted a response to this ... have been involved in many meeting with the Department of Health and we are endorsing the responses from the Care and ... the wellbeing principle, commissioning, charging, direct payments, support planning and continuity of care ...
MP calls for face mask exemption awareness campaign
04 November 2020 | News
... the above, we are concerned that there remains a fundamental lack of public awareness surrounding the exemptions ... may qualify. Data collected by Disability Rights UK shows that there is real fear amongst the disabled community ... may not always be worn and that the lack thereof does not mean that an individual has no good reason for the ...
Penny Mordaunt co-hosts APPG meeting on International Development
07 March 2018 | News
... was an opportunity to hear about the upcoming Global Disability Summit, and gain more detail about what it means for DFID to put disability at the heart of everything it does. When: 6-7pm, Wednesday 7 March 2018 This meeting ...
The Disability Poverty Campaign Group call for collaboration on the new childhood poverty taskforce
29 July 2024 | News
... people across the country. The taskforce will consider how ministers can use policy levers in areas such as education, household income, housing, children’s health and childcare to tackle child poverty. The first ... struggling to feed, clothe and heat homes for children. The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) who campaign ...
15,000 die before getting their share of £970 million ESA underpayment
19 December 2018 | News
... could be affected. It expects to complete its review and pay arrears to all cases back to their date of conversion to ... Affected claimants could be due around £5,000 in arrears. However, up to 15,000 disabled people have died before they ... benefits underpayment blunder . Sue Bott, Deputy CEO Disability Rights UK, said this issue has been a “disaster ...
Bedroom tax rulings concern DWP
12 September 2013 | News
... the bedroom tax. When calculating Housing Benefit, the DWP does not define a bedroom, leaving this up to the landlord to decide. However a series of decisions in Fife have been decided in ... of ‘bedroom tax’ For more on the bedroom tax see http://disabilityrightsuk.org/bedroom-tax You can view the Fife ...