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History of The Disability Rights Handbook To Celebrate 50 Editions!
18 July 2024 | News
... difficult to get any information from the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS). Leaflets promoting ... in nature, including one on sex and disability. The focus, however, was on the state benefits available to Disabled ... is very different from that of Sally Robertson. There is so much more case-law now, but it is available at the touch of ...
Youth Select Committee report on cost-of-living impact highlights disability
08 March 2024 | News
... investigating the cost of living impacts on young people's health and wellbeing. The Youth Select Committee , which is ... affected by the cost-of-living crisis which shows no sign of abating. Amongst the many recommendations in ... to accessing affordable nutritious food and sufficient mental health services, my generation is grappling with ...
90% Of PIP Standard Daily Living Component Recipients Would Fail New Green Paper Test
23 April 2025 | News
... has highlighted a freedom of information (FOI) request showing that the Government’s proposed new Personal ... Benefits and Work says: “we think that the OBR are being much too optimistic in arguing that over half a million ... There is very little support available for claimants whose health conditions may limit their ability to pursue an ...
EHRC to investigate DWP’s safeguarding failures leading to benefit-related deaths
21 June 2024 | News
... for disabled people with learning disabilities or long-term mental health conditions during health assessment determinations. ... investigation of the DWP is welcome if long overdue. “However, it is very concerning that the EHRC will focus only ...
Govt response to WCA fourth review
26 March 2014 | News
... the impact of earlier independent reviews; the way that mental health conditions are considered in the WCA; and the ... work on feasibility . DWP is currently investigating how information from the WCA might be shared with Work ... distress is appropriately recognised when the WCA process does not work as intended. 13.The ESA50 and all letters and ...
Half a million Disabled people set to lose out when DWP scraps ‘work capability assessment test
31 July 2023 | News
... November. The plans, that were outlined in the March 2023 Health and Disability White Paper , will not be introduced ... £400 a month at current benefit rates. The new figures show that, as of November 2022, there were 516,000 people who ... the extra costs Disabled people face in life (although it doesn’t do this very well).” He also pointed to the ...
Evidence Based Review of WCA
11 December 2013 | News
... to improve the assessment of fluctuation in physical and mental health conditions, and the effects of cognitive ... assessment (AA) proposals. The research questions were: How did the two different assessments work when applied to ... have limited capability for work, the outcome of the AA was much more likely to correspond with this view than was the ...
Disabled people far more likely to die by suicide than non-disabled people
07 March 2023 | News
Disabled people are much more likely to die by suicide than non-Disabled people ... for non-disabled women. Fazilet Hadi, Head of Policy at Disability Rights UK said: “The disproportionately high ... reducing incomes and rising costs. We face inadequate health and social care services, punitive benefit processes, ...
DR UK and University of Exeter Launch Study Into Disability Pay Gap
10 July 2024 | News
Researchers from the University of Exeter are working with Disability Rights UK to study the Disability pay gap across ... reporting . In particular, the project hopes to understand how the Disability pay gap varies by different personal ... Derbyshire, a Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Sports Science at the University of Exeter, said: ...
New DR UK Board Member Vicci Livingstone-Thompson awarded BEM
03 January 2025 | News
A personal message from Kamran Mallick, CEO of Disability Rights UK. "WE are delighted to congratulate ... celebrates Vicci’s remarkable contributions to mental health and the rights of Disabled people in Gloucestershire ...