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DR UK ambassador signs Anti Hate Crime pledge
12 October 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK Ambassador Stephen Brookes MBE signed ...
Philippa Day death: family launches legal challenge against DWP
09 May 2021 | News
The family of Philippa Day, who had a personality disorder and who died from a deliberate overdose after her benefits were wrongly cut off, is to seek compensation from the Government.
An inquest concluded in January 2021 that authorities made 28 errors in managing her case and that her experience with the system was a “stressor” in her decision to take the overdose.
Our Mobile Fab Lab launch event
04 August 2015 | News
Mobile fab lab for pioneering disabled people launched at the BBC Media City set to create new disruptive trend
Fab Labs – or Fabrication Laboratories – are spaces where creativity and technology collide. They provide a space where high-tech, innovative equipment meets imagination. The launch event at the BBC on Wednesday and Thursday of last week saw disabled men and women of all ages clutching their invitations and heading for the fifth floor of the BBC in Salford last week, determined to be there at the start of a new frontier for digital fabrication.
DR UK urges local authorities not to suspend Care Act Rights
02 April 2020 | News
Following the Coronavirus Act, which included provisions to suspend disabled people’s rights to care and support under the Care Act, the government has published its guidance for local authorities. The guidance describes the changes that local authorities can make to assessing and delivering care, where demand is too high or staffing resources too limited, and sets out the steps that directors of social care must take before announcing a departure from Care Act provisions.
Campaign to restore the Access to Elected Office Fund
10 April 2018 | News
... costs of standing for election. There are only 5 MPs with a disability. There could be so many more if deaf and disabled ...
DR UK evidence presentation to the UNCRPD in Geneva
13 March 2017 | News
... [Photos supplied by Natasha Hirst] DR UK, with other disability rights groups have submitted shadow reports to ...
Over 450,000 excluded from state-funded care
19 December 2013 | News
... The CSA is a consortium of over 70 organisations, including Disability Rights UK, that represent and support disabled ...
DBC publishes response to 2017 Budget representations
03 October 2017 | News
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) is a national coalition ... committed to working towards a fair benefits system. Disability Rights UK is a member of the DBC. Using our ...
Transform employment support. Rethink WCA
10 December 2013 | News
... support. In her latest blog Liz Sayce Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK calls for a new system supporting self ... people to build their capabilities. “This is what the Disability Employment Strategy needs to deliver. It must ...
DR UK signs petition against shared space and presents letter to PM
10 May 2018 | News
... as well as representatives from organisations in the Disability sector from all around the UK, gathered on the ... delay. This Report called ‘ Building for Equality – Disability and the Urban Environment ’ condemns the use of ... the UK Transport for All Inclusion London Blind Veterans UK Disability Rights UK Action on Disability, London ...