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A message from our CEO: building a movement for change
14 December 2021 | News
... where we have full equity of access to all areas of life. Disability Rights UK is determined to play a full and ... Christmas and a more hopeful New Year. Kamran Mallick, CEO Disability Rights UK A message from our CEO: building a ...
DR UK responds to ableist Warwickshire Councillor comments
04 March 2024 | News
Disability Rights UK has sent a letter with SEND Crisis ... “parenting skill shortages” as the cause of neurodevelopmental impairments such as ADHD, dismissing the existence of ... accepting the plea of a mother” , when evidence shows that less than 4% of Disabled children have access to ...
High street should pursue the purple pound
26 August 2014 | News
... from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has shown disabled people find shopping the most difficult ...
Chancellor fails to implement levelling-up agenda
03 March 2021 | News
... Tax Credit. For the seven million people who either have a disability or have someone with a disability in their household, who are living under the ... to support Disabled people into work. This is despite a disability employment gap of nearly 30%. DR UK’s Head of ...
Two-thirds of workplace adjustments 'turned down'
18 November 2019 | News
... for disabled people. The report, Let's Be Reasonable: Disability Equality in the Workplace, which collated ... two-thirds didn't know that they could ask for paid disability leave (which is distinct from paid sick leave) and only 8% had been allowed disability leave as a reasonable adjustment. Two-thirds felt ...
Love it or hate it? Here’s your chance to Rate it!
04 December 2018 | News
... programme funded by The Big Lottery Fund About DRILL Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning ... by the Big Lottery Fund and is delivered in partnership by Disability Rights UK, Disability Action, Disability Wales and Inclusion Scotland. ...
EHRC reminds shops to comply with the Equality Act
08 September 2020 | News
... Act requires them not to discriminate on the basis of disability and to provide required reasonable adjustments. ... will take note. This year marks 25 years since the Disability Discrimination Act and it is hugely disappointing ...
MPs vote to postpone controversial cuts to ESA
16 November 2016 | News
... controversial cuts to ESA following warnings from the disability community. Original post Following a debate in ... This vote follows over a year of warnings from the disability community and MPs alike and an open letter from over 70 disability charities voicing concern at the devastating ...
DR UK invites Kate Green to visit FabLab
23 October 2014 | News
... of Breakthrough UK also joined the visit and we were shown by Dr Eddie Kirkby and Haydn Insley the lab’s laser ... expression but clearly only a hint of what’s possible. Disability Rights UK are currently recruiting disabled ... Allowance (DSA) and the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). Disability Rights UK will be following up the interest ...
BBC commits to improving inclusion in the workplace
06 November 2018 | News
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Disability is thrilled that, following an internal review ... recommendations include: Increasing the BBC’s target for disability in its workforce from 8% in 2020 to 12% in 2022; ... managers about the support each person needs; and Mandate disability awareness training for all team managers. At our ...