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Obituary: Wycliffe Noble
27 April 2017 | News
... lives over many years.” Former Chair of RADAR and Disability Rights UK Phil Friend said: “Like Liz Sayce, I ... my time as Chair at RADAR and more recently as chair of Disability Rights UK. He was a tremendous supporter of ... that the world is a more accessible place. We owe him much and he will be sadly missed.” Wycliffe was also ...
New HMCTS webchat service to give social security appeal guidance and support
15 September 2019 | News
... to message each other in real time, and means the user doesn’t need to leave the screen they’re working on to ...
BBC commits to TV diversity from April 2021
21 June 2020 | News
... 50:50 equality project through the Media Trust, Reframing Disability in the Media project, which has sought to engage ... step. Disabled people should be visible on primetime as much as through specialist channels such as the BBC’s ...
Government accused of breaching UN convention in its treatment of disabled people
20 August 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK accuses the Government of ... “dismissing” the findings and recommendations of the UN disability committee’s report, describing it as a ... her care package had been cut and she wasn’t able to pay a carer to bring her, she said. “The Government will ...
We're recruiting!
07 December 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK wishes to hire a young Disabled person ... participating in internal and external meetings, and much more. Further information can be accessed by clicking ... you have any questions please contact us at recruitment@disabilityrightsuk.org , or telephone 0330 995 0400. We're ...
Lack of detail is delaying the social care green paper
15 April 2019 | News
... proposals, Sue Bott, director of policy and development at Disability Rights UK, said some of the proposals discussed ... as we could, which was strange because we didn’t know much about the detail. “The people who are suffering ...
Social care faces Coronavirus and immigration ‘perfect storm’
10 March 2020 | News
... outside the EU. The Office for National Statistics figures show an estimated 110,000 current vacancies in the sector. ... be barred from recruiting overseas workers for jobs that pay less than £25,600 a year. The average salary for care ... see an increase in care needs for those with underlying health conditions at the same time as an increase in key ...
Disabled peoples problems accessing primary care
12 March 2015 | News
A new Healthwatch England report says disabled people face major ... exists to serve people living with health conditions or disability. Primary care services that get access right will ... the law to treat someone less favourably on grounds of disability or fail to take reasonable steps to ensure ...
No indication of bedroom tax evictions says Minister
13 May 2013 | News
... additional funding if the planned discretionary housing payments funding is insufficient to prevent evictions as a ... are no current plans to increase discretionary housing payment funding. There are no indications that evictions ... the removal of the spare room subsidy. The Department has however commissioned a consortium led by Ipsos MORI to ...
Students and Universal Credit
10 June 2013 | News
... a couple where both are students); is disabled, entitled to disability living allowance or personal independence payment and satisfies the work capability assessment; is ...