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Disability Rights UK calls for immediate reform of disgraceful PIP mobility rules
11 April 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is appalled at figures showing ... they are effectively housebound. However, the situation is much worse than today’s figures from Motability imply. ...
The challenges of personal health budgets
27 August 2013 | News
... report published today by the Nuffield Trust examines how personal health budgets will work in practice and the issues they ... support personal health budgets; and finding the money to pay for the necessary infrastructure. For policy-makers, the ...
Disability Pride Month: Resistance in Action
09 July 2025 | News
This Disability Pride Month, we reflect on the what pride means to us amidst the roll-back of our rights and how movements from the past can inspire us to keep ... not face exclusion and marginalisation, whether that be in healthcare, education, housing or transport. This month, ...
Our response to the Blue Badge scheme consultation on eligibility
15 March 2018 | News
... and substantial” to “enduring and substantial” that healthcare professionals other than GPs undertake mobility ... adoption will mean that those disabled people with a severe mental health condition who live in England will rightly ... to secure parking places by those with no such disability. However, efforts to ensure the non-misuse of blue badges ...
Disabled Facilities Grants
23 April 2025 | Resource
... get DFGs? What can you get a DFG for? Applying for a DFG How much is a DFG? What if the grant isn't enough? Can I be ... hearing or speech is substantially impaired; you have a mental disorder or impairment of any kind; or you are ...
Budget 2018
28 October 2018 | News
... for which Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit is payable. Parental bereavement leave and pay A new statutory ... where it is impractical to obtain a Gift Aid declaration. Health The government has confirmed earlier announcements of ... the next five years. An extra £2bn a year to be given to mental health services A new Mental Health Crisis Service is ...
EHRC imposes legally binding action plan on the DWP to improve its treatment of disabled benefit claimants
24 April 2022 | News
... to serious concerns about its treatment of people with mental health impairments and learning disabilities. Disability ... the steps being taken to address the problems identified. However, the Commission has concluded that further action is ...
Disabled People Should Be Able To Try Work Without Risk To Their Benefits: New Cross-Party IPPR Report
19 September 2024 | News
... Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) cross-party Commission on Health and Prosperity has concluded its almost three-year ... to find appropriate work that suits for the long term.” However, it says that there are still many potential ... The recommendation that a period in which anyone with a disability or chronic health condition can try work – with ...
Supermarket responses to DRUK letter
15 April 2020 | News
... items. He asked them to answer the following questions: How can customers let you know they are disabled or have a health condition which means they need to shop in a ... customers get priority for online shopping slots? “Aldi does not provide a grocery delivery service, therefore we ...
Review into business support for Disabled and long-term sick people announced
24 January 2025 | News
... review has been launched by the Government to explore how to support people with long-term illnesses or ... over a third of working age people reporting a long-term health condition and around a quarter classed as having a disability, the scale of the challenge according to the ...