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Blind woman secures promises from government to provide accessible pandemic communications
24 March 2021 | News
A blind woman has won a legal case which secures fundamental promises of changes to how the Government communicates with people during the ... The hearing was due to consider Sarah’s challenge to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s practice of sending hard ...
Disabled Supermarket Customers Ask for More Support
21 May 2020 | News
... has been widely appreciated during the coronavirus crisis. However, disabled and older customers feel that supermarkets ... supermarket and or to bring someone with us. Last Friday, Disability Rights UK gave evidence to the Environment, Food ... drafted by the National Autistic Society and signed by many disability organisations, again asking supermarkets to take ...
Disabled People’s Organisations to address Covid-19 Public Inquiry
28 September 2023 | News
Kamran Mallick, CEO of Disability Rights UK, will be giving evidence to the ... have called for Module 2 witnesses to detail structural disability discrimination in the UK prior to the pandemic ... as “vulnerable”, we were last in the queue for health care, our social care was removed or reduced, our ...
DPOs demand removal of Coronavirus Act easements
18 March 2021 | News
... from across the UK led by Inclusion London and Disability Rights UK have written an open letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock asking for the suspension of ... will be reviewed by Parliament next week. The letter cites how evidence continues to mount about the lethal and ...
I Can Make It has gone through a chicane of meetings with our volunteer champions
27 October 2016 | News
... These were to welcome them to the campaign and to discuss how they could take the campaign forward in their areas. On ... you would like to add to those voices and are 18-29, have a disability or health condition and wish to help improve the career ...
Think Personal Act Local Care Act resources
29 January 2015 | News
... of more than 50 organisations committed to transforming health and care through personalisation and community-based ... they engage via the National Co-production Advisory Group. Disability Rights UK also has a Care Act resource page at http://disabilityrightsuk.org/how-we-can-help/independent-living/care-act-resource-page ...
New report suggests ESA quota system
03 December 2013 | News
... assessments , Kaliya Franklin, a leading independent disability campaigner, suggests that government policy has ... of those assessed to be placed in the support group. Any health professional who puts a higher number of claimants in ... to http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/type/pdfs/how-norms-become-targets.html New report suggests ESA quota ...
Prevent hunger. Sign the Fix Universal Credit petition
10 July 2018 | News
... to the design of Universal Credit, to ensure it does not leave more people at risk of debt and destitution. ...
Citizens Advice Scotland warns of “perfect storm” as inflation hits benefit claimants
20 July 2022 | News
... data from across the Citizens Advice network in Scotland shows that: advice need for food banks has grown by almost a ... risen by 25% over 2021-22. advice on universal credit overpayments nearly doubled from the average across 2020/21 to ... and a continuous review of the adequacy of social security payments to ensure they meet everyone’s needs suspending ...
Your basic right to a qualified interpreter
19 January 2014 | News
Our Health in Your Hands has launched a campaign for the Deaf ... Deaf and Deafblind People (NRCPD) The campaign explains how to check if your interpreter is registered with the NRCPD and how to complain if you are refused a registered interpreter. ...