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COVID certification review – call for evidence
18 March 2021 | News
... any, should be placed on organisations using certification. Disability Rights UK is preparing a response to this call ... no later than noon on Tuesday 23 March. Email us at tellus@disabilityrightsuk.org or call us on 0330 995 0400. COVID ...
MPs question DWP medical assessors about the quality of their medical assessments
05 December 2017 | News
... and Maximus who carry out the medical assessments for disability benefits PIP and ESA. The Committee was putting ...
Death of Her Majesty the Queen, and lying in state access
08 September 2022 | News
As the nation marks with sadness and respect the long life service of Her Majesty The Queen, DR UK extends our empathy to all those feeling her loss.
More support for young carers in Scotland
19 September 2017 | News
A new Young Carer Grant, worth £300 a year, will be part of a new package of support for young carers, announced First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Read Scottish Government press release
The grant will be awarded, from autumn 2019, to young carers aged 16 to 18 who do at least 16 hours of caring a week and who are still at school.
This is part of a full package of support for Scottish carers, including:
Our response to the new strategy for sport consultation
07 October 2015 | News
The government is developing a new strategy for sport. This consultation invited views on the following ten themes
- Participation
- Physical activity
- Children and young people
- Financial sustainability
- Coaching, workforce and good governance
- Elite and professional sport
- Infrastructure
- Fairness and equality
- Safety and wellbeing
- International influence and major sporting events
Child residence tests breach human rights
29 June 2014 | News
Childrens' residence tests breach their rights, says Human Rights Committee
In their new Report the Joint Committee on Human Rights concludes that the impact of a new proposed legal aid residence test on children will lead to breaches by the United Kingdom of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) because it will in practice prevent children from being effectively represented in legal proceedings which affect them.
DWP enters legal agreement with EHRC to improve services for deaf claimants
18 August 2020 | News
The DWP has entered a legally binding agreement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to improve support for deaf claimants accessing its services by telephone.
In the agreement, the DWP has committed to an action plan to address the problems these complaints identified.
The action plan commits DWP to:
Provide a Video Relay Service (VRS) across telephony services for all benefits and services. VRS enables deaf users to contact DWP via video relay using an interpreter;
Hans Asperger Nazi links prompt Asperger United name change
12 July 2018 | News
... in mid-August. Leo Capella, Communications Officer for Disability Rights UK’s Get Yourself Active project, ...
NICE publishes guideline adult homecare and support
20 February 2018 | News
... by supporting them to make decisions about their care. Disability Rights UK contributed to this guideline. This ...
Victoria Derbyshire wants participants for state of the NHS show
01 February 2017 | News
... Derbyshire wants participants for state of the NHS show ...