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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Supporting disabled students into work
14 October 2013 | News
... Innovation and Skills. The project will investigate how universities can better support disabled people into ... reflect on their current practices to ensure they advance disability equality. It will involve interviews with ... courses and universities, who have an interest in advancing disability equality to join an advisory group. The group ...
Disabled People in HE Leadership tenders
23 January 2014 | News
... Equality and Diversity theme. Details of the project and how to submit a tender are on their website at ...
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 ...
I am a Disabled Muslim Woman, so what???
07 March 2016 | News
Banane Nafeh, who works on our Personal Budgets Helpline, has written this poem as part of International Women’s Day.
79 percent of DLA reassessments move to PIP
16 September 2014 | News
... while they undergo evaluation they are labelled as experimental statistics. These statistics cover new claim caseload ... awards up to 31 July 2014. The statistics on PIP decisions show that 79% of those, previously on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) who were reassessed for ...
Disability campaigners ask for ban on prepayment meters
26 January 2023 | News
... warrants that allow energy suppliers to forcibly install prepayment meters in their homes. Force-fitting is used to ... vulnerable households to switch to prepayment meters. However, he fell short of asking for an outright ban, ... a review of suppliers who are not abiding by the rules. The Disability Poverty Campaign group ( DPCG) of which DR UK is ...
Our submission to Lords Select Committee on Equality Act and Disability
28 September 2015 | News
Disability Rights UK’s Supplementary Submission to the ... and implementation of the Equality Act 2010 in relation to how it serves disabled people. The Act was intended to ... Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and Disability will ask how effective this legislation is. Find out more about the ...