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Prime Minister opens door for discussion between APPG on disability and the DWP Minister
25 January 2017 | News
... Dr Lisa Cameron, Chair All-Party Parliamentary Group for Disability (APPG). View Hansard View film clip Dr Lisa ... pledge to halve the disability employment gap. Research shows that that pledge will not be met for 50 years. To date, ... of State for Work and Pensions is looking very seriously at how we can ensure that there are more disabled people in the ...
Councils not ensuring minimum wage paid to care workers
29 October 2014 | News
... make it a contractual condition for homecare providers to pay care workers for travel time, according to a Freedom of ... While just 7% of councils in England require providers to pay travel time, the picture is even worse in Wales with none of its councils instructing providers to pay for travel time. Non-payment of travel time means many ...
Train companies team up to improve accessibility for disabled customers
17 October 2016 | News
... both companies hosted an inaugural Inclusivity Forum giving disability groups and organisations the opportunity to offer ... regarding train travel. Attendees at the meeting included Disability Rights UK, I Am Me Scotland and N-Vision along ... in a similar role I have with Blackpool Transport, I know how beneficial it is for transport service and rail ...
Latest PIP statistics published
16 December 2014 | News
Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to October 2014 On the 31 October 2014, 208,000 people had a PIP claim in payment, an increase of 101,000 (95%) on the previous ... reported quarterly figure (July 2014). Of these claims in payment at 31 October 2014: 25,000 (12%) were assessed under ...
Public Law Solicitors response to PIP consultation
20 August 2013 | News
... lawfulness of the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013. The grounds of the challenge are ... for the purpose of identifying those who have higher disability-related costs. Indeed, it is very difficult to ... GP surgeries and so on without incurring the same extra disability-related costs as those who are unable to stand ...
Disability Rights UK is looking for case studies and personal stories for its new Reskilling guide
10 November 2015 | News
... about their experiences of acquiring an impairment and how they dealt with returning to employment, ... Philip Connolly on 07706 643667 or email philip.connolly@disabilityrightsuk.org Disability Rights UK is looking for case studies and ...
“Special or Unique”: A new report from Disability Rights UK and LKMco
11 August 2019 | News
“Special or Unique”: A new report from Disability Rights UK and LKMco Disability Rights UK have ... Odell from Disability Rights UK said: “These findings show that, in some areas, little has changed for disabled ... teachers, school leaders and policymakers better understand how they can support young disabled people. The research ...
EU copyright law could affect organisations ability to share key information
20 June 2018 | News
... to this, Article 11 could require web publishers, such as Disability Rights UK and other charities, to pay a 'link tax' when posting snippets of news from other ... though in the future this might not be allowed, unless we pay for them: http://digg.com/2018/eu-copyright-filtering ...
Leaders call on Prime Minister to create socially just Coronavirus recovery plan
17 June 2020 | News
Disability Rights UK has joined with leaders of more than ... from the Business and Sustainable Development Commission showed that if implemented the SDGs create at least US$12tn ... and societal inequalities Build coherent policies for a healthy planet and to aid the transition to net zero Unite ...
CQC releases Covid-19 and Whorlton Hall reports
15 December 2020 | News
The Care Quality Commission, the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, has released two ... be rated as ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ if they cannot show how they support whistleblowing and reporting of concerns. ...