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Exploring the potential of Disabled people as Foster Carers
12 March 2019 | News
... carer or have thought they would not be able to foster. However, Disabled people have parenting and life skills that ...
Disabled People’s Organisations slam UK Government pandemic failures over Covid
04 October 2023 | News
Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs): Disability Rights UK, Inclusion Scotland, Disability Wales ... identified previously confidential documents which now show that Ministers, including the Prime Minister, chose to ... as “vulnerable”, we were last in the queue for health care, our social care was removed or reduced, our ...
Choice, Control and Independent Living: Putting the Care Act into practice
18 October 2018 | News
... specific areas of concern: assessments, charging, direct payments and safeguarding. It finds an estimated 1,300 ... are difficult for people to complete policies on direct payments, including the focus on pre-payment cards, and delivery of the support service, are ...
Getting to Know PIP event thoughts
06 May 2013 | News
Disability Rights Tribunal Support Adviser Robbie Spence was ... on PIP see our Factsheet F60 - personal independence payment Getting to Know PIP event thoughts ...
Overcoming your disability within employment
20 July 2016 | News
... in the UK vs USA and Canada. You can read his blog on the Disability Today website Overcoming your disability within employment ...
Lindsay Swain talks about her experiences as a GOGA mentor
07 June 2018 | News
... I couldn’t help but wonder what else I had to offer, and how I could use something that I’m interested in and knowledgeable about to help someone else. Since health and sports have always been a big part of my life, I ... your interest contact Kate Pieroudis (Peer Support Lead) at Disability Rights UK on 0207 250 8111 or ...
Our response to the halving the disability employment gap inquiry
10 May 2016 | News
... was elected on a manifesto commitment to halve the disability employment gap. Their ambition was the subject of ... there are set to be insufficient vacancies in the economy. However we do support the commitment and have identified the ... and have also offered specific and developed proposals for how this might be achieved with the involvement of disabled ...
Apprenticeship and skill conference overview film
12 December 2016 | News
... This free seminar was intended to broaden understanding of how to overcome barriers to progression into work experience ... for people living with a range of impairments and health conditions. View a report of the day and ...
Coronavirus strategy hinders stroke recovery
23 September 2020 | News
Thousands of stroke patients have suffered avoidable disability because of interruptions to NHS care during the ... Policy Fazilet Hadi said: “This is yet more evidence of how people with health conditions and disability have borne the brunt of the ...
Decisions made on only 1 in 5 PIP claims
10 February 2014 | News
New DWP statistics published today show that only 34,200 of the 220,300 disabled people making a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim have received a decision. The new data ... claims have been succesful. In addition, the new figures show a sharp decline in the proportion of succesful PIP ...