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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 ...
Ageless Thanet 50+ Festival
07 November 2018 | News
Disability Rights UK in partnership with Volunteering ... and get their message out there. Volunteer Matters and Disability Rights UK used the opportunity to promote the ... like further information on the Peer Mentor scheme and how it can help to fulfil your project aims then just drop ...
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.
Independent Living Fund: post-closure review
19 January 2017 | News
... potentially been improved by better communications about how and when the new arrangements would be decided. Future ... Having high quality staff that were experienced and showed sensitivity about an individual’s circumstances ... was considered a successful aspect of the transition. However, LA staff suggested that a concrete measure of ...
ILF user guide to 2015
23 March 2014 | News
... in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will determine how ILF users in each of those parts of the UK, are ... distinct care and support systems. This guide explains how ILF recipients will be supported until June 2015. You ...
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, ...