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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
TLAP Care Act survey results published
03 July 2017 | News
... support made a positive difference to their wellbeing and health. Areas of major concern, however, highlighted by the survey were people’s ability ... The survey was commissioned by the Department of Health. It was carried out by 1,181 people aged 18 and over. ...
PIP has cost up to £2 billion more than keeping DLA
15 January 2019 | News
Government disability benefit spending has increased by 15% to 20% ... people whose incomes, independence and physical and mental well-being has been blighted by PIP. " Those hardest ... is our Freedom of Information Act request response which shows that around half of DLA claimants who were in receipt ...
I Can Make It charges towards Christmas
15 December 2016 | News
... We look forward to more progress from them in the new year. However, we would like to thank all our champions across the ... as Liverpool and Nottingham. So if you are 18-29, have a disability or health condition live in and around either of those cities ...
Vital COVID information is inaccessible to BSL users
20 December 2020 | News
... the coronavirus pandemic, the majority of important health information provided by the UK government has not ... as it provided information online and live subtitles. However, by not providing information in BSL, the government ... government in the UK has managed to do this.” “With the Disability Strategy soon to be published, it would be a ...
A Life Without Limits by Sir Bert Massie - DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick's Book review
17 November 2023 | News
... opinion piece you'd like to pitch, feel free to email media@disabilityrightsuk.org with the header 'BLOG SUBMISSION'. A ... the way it had always been done earned him respect and a pay rise. He blatantly ignored the strict ‘no passenger’ ... by Bob Niven and Ann Frye, it is this chapter that shows the scale of his hard work and the breadth of his ...