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Assessing disability awareness training provided to bus drivers
12 May 2016 | News
... (DfT) is looking to assess the impact and quality of the disability awareness training provided to bus and coach ... good practice guidance around the content and delivery of disability awareness training in the run up to it becoming ... questions or wish to participate contact Philip.Connolly@disabilityrightsuk.org Assessing disability awareness ...
Disabled people should decide priorities on getting active
09 June 2016 | News
Sue Bott’s latest blog ‘It’s a walk in the park’ highlights the obstacles disabled people face in getting active.
She says personal budgets give people an opportunity to decide what works best for them within the resources available and that bureaucratic obstacles can hamper wellbeing.
Funding available from EHRC for disability discrimination cases
22 January 2017 | News
... funding for front line advice and representation for disability discrimination claims. Find out more The work ... than 3rd February 2017. Funding available from EHRC for disability discrimination cases ...
Self-driving cars pose threat for Disabled people
21 April 2021 | News
A new generation of self-driving cars which is supposed to eliminate human error can actually increase mistakes as it fails to recognise the behaviours of Disabled people.
The Law Commission is drawing up a legal framework for self-driving vehicles, and has said that: “Systems may not have been trained to deal with the full variety of wheelchairs and mobility scooters.”
Transport Select Committee Challenges Aspects of GBR Rail Reform
13 March 2025 | News
... Great British Railways and its recent consultation. However, in contrast with the previous Government’s draft ... plans to revitalise rail.” In endorsing the statement Disability Rights UK has regularly complained that Disabled ... set up. But needs differ, and there is very little to show how competing needs will be balanced. The insignificant ...
Disability Law Service vacancy for welfare benefits advisor
24 February 2023 | Opportunity
Disability Law Service is seeking a welfare benefits advisor ... See www.dls.org.uk/news for more information Disability Law Service vacancy for welfare benefits advisor ...
Finding the Law
07 October 2022 | Resource
... or tax credits claim or win an appeal, you need to know how to find out about the law that you want to challenge. ... to start are our online case law summaries pages or our Disability Rights Handbook . You can also subscribe to ... benefit and SDA UK or CPIP - personal independence payment (CSPIP in Scotland) Since the introduction of Upper ...
Coronavirus Care Act easements to be removed
24 March 2021 | News
... Act, are to be removed ‘at some point’ after Easter. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that: “We are ...
County Council called upon to change chronic lack of accessibility
27 April 2021 | News
... March 2018 and now uses a wheelchair. He has made a video showing just how hard it is to get around the popular resort town, even ... of how to adapt environments as per the Social Model of Disability, and more recently, they have been taking away ...
IPSOS Mori survey shows cutting disability benefits unpopular
23 March 2016 | News
... 22% were in support of them. View survey IPSOS Mori survey shows cutting disability benefits unpopular ...