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Speaking from Experience: Getting It Right for Disabled Apprentices - 2023 report launched
08 February 2023 | News
... Getting It Right for Disabled Apprentices. It is Disability Rights UK’s follow-up report to 2022’s ... and analysing young Disabled people’s experiences of how they receive information about apprenticeships; their ...
Free bus passes for older and disabled people protected for the future
09 April 2018 | News
... for Transport release Bus passengers aged over 65 or with a disability have been entitled to travel free of charge on ... thanks to the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme. However there was always the chance that the concession ...
Ahead of the Arc report
12 December 2016 | News
... of the launch The All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability will be launching their report, “Ahead of the ... largely overlooks – are there enough future vacancies and how can Government ensure that disabled people are able to ... for disabled people to move off benefits, where their health condition makes this appropriate. We urge the ...
Disabled people delivering professional training with lived experience is a potent mix
19 September 2018 | News
Uber is extending its programme of Disability Equality Training (DET) for their partner-drivers ... all around the country. CEO Kamran Mallick says: “Disability Rights UK welcomes the news that a transport provider like Uber is taking seriously how it provides service to disabled people. We are pleased ...
Scottish Government consults on independent advocacy support for disabled benefit claimants
10 July 2019 | News
The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on “how best to ensure the highest standards of service are ... that advocacy support will be in place for summer 2020 when disability assistance is delivered For more information see ...
Emergency evacuation plans needed for disabled people in high rise blocks
20 January 2021 | News
... of personal emergency evacuation plans for disabled people. Disability Rights UK is in contact with the Grenfell Next of Kin Group which is keen to ensure that disability groups are fully involved in the consultation. We ... when these become available. The concerns regarding how disabled people can safely evacuate from flats is now ...
Race report criticism continues to grow as UN joins the condemnation
21 April 2021 | News
... people continue to experience “poor economic, social, and health outcomes at vastly disproportionate rates in the ... whitewash” and pointed out the total lack of reference to disability, despite the strong impacts of intersectional ... on robust evidence and data” and was focused on “how to promote racial equality” and said that the Group ...
Want to be part of disability reference group for South East trains?
26 September 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK Ambassador involved in setting up rail disability reference group. Disability Rights UK Ambassador Stephen Brookes is ...
Universal credit system faces landmark legal challenge over lost disability premiums
04 February 2018 | News
... TP, became terminally ill in 2016 and received the severe disability premium (SDP) and enhanced disability premium (EDP), which were set up to meet the ... had their benefits restricted under universal credit. Disability Rights UK believes the abolition of SDP costs ...
MPs debate audio recording of WCA
12 June 2013 | News
... and acknowledged an increasing demand for audio recording. However this demand needed to be balanced against potential ... offered by the Department for Work and Pensions and Atos Healthcare or through the use of their own recording ... centre during spring 2011 and the results of that pilot showed that less than half of the 500 people who were offered ...