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Disability Rights UK Annual General Meeting 2024!
17 October 2024 | Event
We are excited to invite you to Disability Rights UK's Annual General Meeting (AGM), which ... of the Board of Trustees, who will be sharing insights on how we have responded to the ongoing challenges faced by ... join the board in 2025. You’ll get to meet them and learn how they will support our mission going forward. We hope to ...
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 ...
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 ...
DWP publish new PIP award duration guidance
15 August 2018 | News
The DWP has issued new guidance to PIP Decision Makers on how to set the length of a claimant’s PIP award. The new ... Makers are told that they must consider the claimant’s health condition(s), and the needs arising . And that the ...
Reasonable work adjustments can be reduced hours
11 November 2013 | News
... a Jobcentre but had been on long term sickness due to ill health since June 2009. In August 2010, his GP wrote a fit ... in its reasoning a key issue in the case – namely, how far the step or steps which were in issue would have ...
Progress on disability rights in UK hampered by government inaction
08 October 2018 | News
Progress on disability rights in the United Kingdom: UK Independent ... on this important opportunity to reflect on and progress disability rights. We are concerned by the lack of a prompt ... there is no comprehensive UK-wide strategy demonstrating how the UK will implement the CRPD Committee’s ...
An important message from DR UK CEO Liz Sayce
16 January 2017 | News
... Liz I wanted to let you know that after 10 years as CEO of Disability Rights UK and its legacy charity Radar, I’ve ... country on the UN Convention – and heard again and again how disabled people’s rights to live independently in the ... experience of disability, or living with a long term health condition, to replace her. An important ...
DR UK says figures for rejected PIP mandatory reconsiderations a disgrace
13 December 2016 | News
... 80% of mandatory reconsiderations the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) award remains unchanged. View statistics ... appeal these decisions ( 65% as of September 2016 ). 48% of disability living allowance (DLA) reassessments for PIP have ... Instead, many disabled people are having their right to a disability benefit withheld due to poor face to face ...
DWP response to SSAC over bedroom tax
17 November 2013 | News
... is receiving the middle or higher rate care component of Disability Living Allowance. The SSAC wanted a wider ... a very limited category of claimants, namely those whose disability is so severe that an extra bedroom is needed for ... We do not accept this approach. Discretionary Housing Payments are available to support vulnerable groups affected ...
Stirling CAB money-food survival guide
25 August 2013 | News
... Local Authorities Scottish Welfare Fund and Social Work Payments DWP Payments Budgeting Loans, Benefit Advances and Hardship Payments Other local aid - Welfare groups, Charities, food ...