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Requests for salary info is discrimination – Fawcett Society
23 November 2021 | News
... backgrounds, and Disabled people, and entrenches the gender pay gap, according to new work by the Fawcett Society. In its latest survey to mark Equal Pay Day on 18 November – the date women effectively start ... said: “Asking about salary history can mean past pay discrimination follows women, people of colour, and ...
Commons rejects Lords amendments to ESA cuts
22 February 2016 | News
... by Lord Low, protecting limited capability for work payments within Universal Credit was also rejected by 304 to ... about the Bill and this debate Read the debate Find out how your MP voted on clause 13 (ESA cut) and clause 14 (UC ...
Apprenticeship reforms are failing to deliver
10 June 2019 | News
... from a wider range of social and demographic groups. However, the Department’s targets for apprenticeship ... population, and among those with a learning difficulty, disability or health problem, are unambitious in that they are below the ...
Disability Sheffield ILF Guide
21 May 2015 | News
... issues about community care assessments and support and how it will apply to them following the closure of the ILF ... solicitor at Scott-Moncrieff & Associates and a trustee at Disability Sheffield together with ILF users, Inclusion London and Disability Sheffield Centre for Independent Living. ...
Our statement on ILF closure
28 June 2015 | News
... 46,000 disabled people to achieve independent living. Disability Rights UK has opposed closure of the Independent ... 3 tables. Table 1 - FOI reference number, ringfencing, how many users. Table 2 - No's with pc transfer review, no's ... Living fund closes , at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33307821 Our statement on ILF closure ...
At least 166,000 in Social Care Debt and more than 1,100 taken to court
04 June 2018 | News
... Great Britain with responsibility for social care, also show at least 1,178 people have been taken to court by local ... 166,835 people who are in arrears on their social care payments, more than 78,000 have debt management procedures ... didn't respond. Ken Butler, Welfare Rights Adviser for Disability Rights UK said: "This high level of debt among ...
Vaccine roll out: no date for CEV list, u-turn on care home residents being first to receive jab
02 December 2020 | News
... Dr June Raine, Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said: "no ... aged 55 and over People aged 50 and over Everyone else However, by Wednesday evening, the Government announced that ... take at least some care home residents to the vaccine?” Disability Rights UK has been campaigning for shielders – ...
Coronavirus - information for disabled people
22 November 2020 | News
... government released information on its winter plan, and on how local tiers will work from 2 December. Information and ... to key government updates can be found here: https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/coronavirus Coronavirus - information ...
PIP stats show broken system
04 June 2014 | News
The Personal Independence Payment statistics issued today show that the disability benefit system in the UK has broken down. ...
Disabled entrepreneurs and new technology
16 November 2015 | News
In this article our Policy and Development Officer Philip Connelly talks about our In the Making Project
He notes that if young unemployed disabled people had been trained in the use of personal computers in the 80’s they would not only be first in line for jobs, but also now be driving the economy.” Read the full article in the Engineering and Technology Magazine