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Independent advocacy service launched to help disabled people access Social Security Scotland benefits
30 June 2020 | News
... advocate will be available to anyone who, because of their disability, needs support applying for benefits. An advocate ...
The Paralympics: a celebration of disabled people’s achievements or an impossible goal for most?
16 September 2016 | News
In this new blog, our CEO Liz Sayce discusses the mixed responses of disabled people to the Paralympics and says why we should celebrate the games.
Event - APPDG Seminar on Transport and disabled people: realising independence and full participation
10 February 2013 | News
Monday 11 February 14:00-16:45 (speeches and debate 14:30 – 16:00)
Attlee Suite, Portcullis House SW1A 0AA Kindly sponsored by First Group UK Bus
Co-chairs: Baroness Campbell of Surbiton DBE and Rt Hon Anne McGuire MP
Speakers: Norman Baker MP, Transport Minister; Rt Hon Maria Eagle MP, Shadow Transport Secretary; Liz Chandler, Corporate Development Director from MerseyTravel; Will Bee, independent consultant (perspective from disabled people) - followed by debate
DR UK Trustee Lucy Aliband appears in film on lack of disability access
21 December 2016 | News
... DR UK Trustee Lucy Aliband appears in film on lack of disability access ...
New project uncovers 800 years in the lives of deaf and disabled people
07 June 2017 | News
Screen South, is delighted to announce that it has received a grant of £878,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the Accentuate History of Place project.
Data reveals extent of the prepayment meter scandal
29 March 2023 | News
... last month that the ban on the forced installation of Prepayment meters under warrant was to be continued past the ... initially put in place after The Times broke the story of how financially vulnerable households were having Prepayment ... and campaigns officer at DR UK and one of the leads at the Disability Poverty Campaign Group said: “After we were ...
Liz Sayce speaks on Money Box about benefits changes
15 February 2017 | News
... of experts to unpick and explain the changes and advise on how they might affect you. Paul Lewis presents the programme with Disability Rights UK Chief Executive Liz Sayce, David Finch, ...
First trials of self-driving vehicle services include buses and taxis
21 November 2018 | News
... vehicles and their technology will not only revolutionise how we travel, it will open up and improve transport ... will include social behavioural research to further explore how driverless technology can seamlessly integrate into ...
Keep and extend the £20 week Universal Credit uplift or otherwise push up poverty, says the Resolution Foundation
17 January 2021 | News
... Income Floor and the increase to Local Housing Allowance however done a great deal to support incomes in 2020-21. However, it stresses that: “The most significant of these ...
DPCG reach out to new Government with offer of collaboration to end disability poverty
16 July 2024 | News
The Disability Poverty Campaign Group, a coalition led by DR UK and Inclusion London and supported by DPOs, disability Charities and allies, have written an ... letter to new PM Keir Starmer. The DPCG has been instrumental, alongside other groups, in raising the issue of ...