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Thousands struggle to buy food
02 April 2020 | News
... disabled people. The government is now actively considering how the scheme could be extended and improved. Fazilet Hadi ... as online and for people to be given clear information on how their personal data will be used. “Supermarkets and ... people.” DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick has written to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock about food supply. You can ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...