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£30 week cut to ESA intolerable says Disability Rights UK
16 November 2016 | News
... and Support Allowance for new claimants, Sue Bott from Disability Rights UK said: "A £30 a week cut in income is ... has recently issued a consultation on halving the disability employment gap. Some of its proposals are ... the planned cut. You can find out who your MP is and how to contact them by visiting the They Work For You ...
Disability Rights UK Stands Against Far-Right, Racist Violence: Full Statement
06 August 2024 | News
Disability Rights UK condemns, in the strongest terms, the ... and brown communities across the country. The fight for Disability Rights cannot be separated from the fight against ... enough to condemn ongoing violence if we refuse to look at how we have normalised Islamophobic and racist state ...
Caroline Waugh gets active and 'cycles back to being her'
05 June 2016 | News
Caroline Waugh talks about how she has used cycling as a way to help her to live a good ... In our first Get Yourself Active blog Caroline describes how getting active through cycling has ‘changed her life forever’ and helped with her health conditions. Read Caroline’s blog here This is the ...
Blackpool Transport nominated for Bus Awards 2016 for work on Disability Awareness
10 October 2016 | News
Stephen Brookes, is lead on the Disability Action Alliance (DAA) Transport project and a DR ... the awards finalists video Stephen Brookes, is lead on the Disability Action Alliance (DAA) Transport project. Stephen also runs the Disability Hate Crime Network and is a key contributor to ...
Covid restrictions removed
24 February 2022 | News
... contact tracing has now ended. Self-isolation support payments, national funding for practical support and the ... remove the COVID-19 provisions within the Statutory Sick Pay and Employment and Support Allowance regulations. And ...
DWP abandons 80% benefit reconsideration targets
13 December 2017 | News
... and Capita to inform DWP’s decisions on awards of disability benefits PIP and ESA. The Committee had heard of ... original decisions are to be upheld. The Committee queried how a target for upholding original decisions could be ...
Disability Rights UK’s Katrina Morris Nominated for Rising Star Award
17 May 2023 | News
... Morris, our very own Leadership Academy Executive at Disability Rights UK, has been shortlisted for the Rising ... the progress in diversity made on Boards so far and how more inclusion at leadership level can positively impact ... we can safely say Katrina has been doing with us at Disability Rights UK, where she has been working for nearly ...
DR UK policy position on supporting disabled students in HE
09 July 2017 | News
... Unit Philip Connolly, Policy and Development Manager, Disability Rights UK Grace Simpson, Higher Education Policy ... Group Philip’s presentation also highlighted many of Disability Rights UK's policy positions regarding disabled ... Agency, DR UK recommends that they have a theme of how universities are meeting their new responsibilities ...
Council agrees to scrap home care charges
08 December 2014 | News
... will abolish what has rightly become known as a "tax on disability".” There are currently 1266 people in the borough who require home care services, 313 of which pay the hourly charge. The abolition of charges will cost ... will also mark the end of a difficult battle for local disability campaigners, who have campaigned for eight years ...
DR UK meets with Disabilities Minister about our In the Making project
26 January 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK had the opportunity to tell Minister ...