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We want Access to Work to be easier to claim
27 October 2013 | News
... make improvements to Access to Work a centrepiece of their disability employment strategy. We want Access to Work to be ...
A quarter of autistic children wait over three years for school support
08 December 2021 | News
... The Government Green Paper on Special Education Needs and Disability is due to be published next year. Education can ...
Number of people who think benefits are too high falls to 15%
03 March 2021 | News
... of people now think benefits are too high. The data also shows a sharp fall in the number of people who think the ...
Share your personal experiences of getting active
11 April 2018 | News
Everyone at Get Yourself Active loves it when people with disabilities share their personal experiences of getting active with the wider world.
Crisis threatens London social care services following Brexit
27 March 2018 | News
... retention problems. Kamran Mallick, chief executive of Disability Rights UK, told The Independent : “The social ...
McDonald case helps care plan disputes
19 May 2014 | News
... its ruling on the Mcdonald case (for background see http://disabilityrightsuk.org/mcdonald-v-united-kingdom ) The ... of Article 8. Sue Bott, Director of Policy and Development, Disability Rights UK comments: “We are encouraged that the ...
MP demands Capita end punitive PIP assessments
28 January 2014 | News
Peter Hain has called on the medical assessment company Capita to urgently reform its process before it descends into the same ‘punitive fiasco’ as the ATOS assessments from Employment and Support Allowance which caused misery for thousands of local people.
Growing numbers of applicants have been waiting months for their assessments to be completed.
Office of Rail and Road announces new safeguarding measures
04 October 2020 | News
The Office of Rail and Road has announced new safeguarding measures which will improve reliability for requests for passenger assistance on Britain's railways.
The new scheme, following a successful trial by Network Rail, GTR and South West Railway, focuses on improving and simplifying the way staff communicate and coordinate passenger assistance between stations, which should help prevent assistance failures and drive up the reliability of the service."
Upcoming DR UK webinar: Vision Impairment - The journey to adulthood
10 January 2021 | News
This webinar from Disability Rights UK in partnership with the Thomas ...
Motorway service stations can now apply for funding to become fully accessible
10 April 2019 | News