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I Can Make It attends West Midlands Heads of Procurement meeting in Birmingham
14 July 2016 | News
... and made us feel very welcome. If you’re 18-29, have a disability or long term health condition and wish to help improve the career ... West Midlands and nationwide, then please email leo.capella@disabilityrightsuk.org . I Can Make It attends West Midlands ...
High Court considers legacy benefit uplift appeal
08 December 2022 | News
... heard this week in the High Court in London. Members of the Disability Benefits Consortium and DR UK were outside in support. Legacy benefits are welfare payments such as employment and support allowance, which are ... successful the Government will be forced to send backdated payments to those who missed out, around two million people. ...
I Can Make It keeps rolling during the winter months
08 December 2016 | News
December: a time for relaxing, thinking about how to enjoy/survive Christmas and winding down. Not if ... mentioned in a report that the All Parliamentary Group on Disability released on employment called “Ahead of the ... disabilities. So if you are 18-29, have a disability or health condition and want to join us in helping to improve ...
Free Disability and Skills Unit Inclusive Practice in Careers Provision seminar
20 February 2017 | News
Inclusive Practice in Careers Provision: How to improve careers education, information, advice and guidance for young disabled people Disability Rights UK’s Disability Skills Unit would like ... challenging attitudes relating to disability and how to address the cause of inequity by removing the ...
Disability History Month 2018
09 December 2018 | News
UK Disability History Month 2018 (UKDHM 2018) will focus on Disability and Music. 19th November to 22nd December - Find ... when, early on in my career, the media invariably mentioned how I came on stage using crutches and played sitting ...
Rail Industry committed to improve accessibility for disabled passengers
31 January 2017 | News
... for Transport will work with train companies to see how staff training can be improved. Where facilities are out ...
Police say disability hate crime up 5 percent
16 December 2013 | News
... 2011/12 and 2012/13 CSEW estimates that there were 62,000 disability motivated hate crimes per year on average. In 2012/13, the police recorded 1,841 disability hate crimes, compared with 1,757 offences the previous year (a 5% increase). Disability hate crimes accounted for four per cent of all ...
Russian para athletes banned from winter Paralympics
02 March 2022 | News
... our decision yesterday, we were looking at the long-term health and survival of the Paralympic movement. We are ... and values that have made the movement what it is today. “However, what is clear is that the rapidly escalating ...
600 disabled claimants per DEA unacceptable
27 January 2014 | News
... and Support Allowance claimants to specialist Jobcentre Disability Employment Advisers (DEA). This ratio is ... produce a comprehensive framework which sets out in detail how closer working arrangements with local providers can be ... Disability Rights UK's report 'Taking Control of Employment ...
Disabled people face biggest average benefit reduction under Universal Credit says new study
02 February 2016 | News
... on average – a reversal of the original intention. However, the potential gains from simplifying the ... claiming the middle or higher rate of the care component of disability living allowance, who will no longer receive the severe disability premium under UC.” Overall, in the long run, ...