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Government Urged to Protect Disabled People from Fire
27 May 2021 | News
... residents who can’t self-evacuate in the event of fire. Disability Rights UK, Grenfell Next of Kin and the Leaseholders Disability Action Group, alongside disability, access and housing organisations, are calling on ...
New early early day motion on disability employment
21 November 2017 | News
Has your MP signed up? Disability Rights UK has been working with the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability Dr Lisa Cameron MP to raise the voice of disabled ... has also submitted an application for a backbench debate on disability and employment to coincide with international day ...
DR UK at Lets talk about disability event
13 December 2017 | News
As part of Disability December, Disability Rights UK visited the University of Nottingham to talk about disability on Tuesday 5th December 2017. At the event, DR UK ...
Parliament Sets up Cross Party Group on Disability
15 May 2025 | News
... was elected chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability. The meeting was attended by a number of MPs ... of the group is to create links between parliament and the disability community, to ensure that debates and decisions ... people. The secretariat for the group will be provided by Disability Rights UK. Marsha spoke of the need for a group ...
Disabled people cutting back on food and essentials
08 August 2022 | News
... on food and essentials. Fazilet Hadi, Head of Policy at Disability Rights UK said “ Yet again, research shows that Disabled people are being disproportionately ...
DR UK welcomes debate on abortion and disability
29 January 2017 | News
On Friday the Abortion (Disability Equality) Bill, put forward by Lord Shinkwin, ... a 56% rise of termination after 24 weeks on the grounds of disability. In his speech to the Lords Lord Shinkwin said: ... Bill is not about the rights and wrongs of abortion, fundamentally it is about equality. Wherever Parliament sets the ...
Esther McVey meets disabled students on Project SEARCH
16 May 2013 | News
... Project SEARCH She spoke to 12 young people with a learning disability about the employability skills, training and work ... businesses to be confident about employing disabled people: disability confident. The project is aimed at young disabled ...
DR UK CEO attends Disability Summit in Blackpool
09 October 2017 | News
... was welcomed to the North West on Friday 6th October to the Disability Summit organised by Blackpool based Disability First . In a keynote speech to a large group ... Kamran spoke about his journey through life and his role as Disability Rights UK (DR UK) CEO and underpinned the message ...
DR UK meets new Minister for Disabled People
18 July 2016 | News
... for Disabled People Penny Mordaunt, alongside other disability organisations. The status of the role has gone ... with disabled people and our organisations, to halve the disability employment gap the need to make sure as we leave ...
Labour Market Stats show disability employment gap unchanged
16 February 2016 | News
... 2015. Analysis by Scope, one of our member organisations, shows that, although more disabled people are in work, the disability employment gap remains unchanged. Read Scope ... analysis of the number of disabled people in work shows: The number of disabled people in employment has ...