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The Equality Act and Disabled people
22 December 2022 | Resource
Contents What is the Equality Act? What is Physical or mental impairment? What is a substantial and long-term ... are normal day-to-day activities? Types of discrimination How you can use the Equality Act What the Act can do for you ... be able to report this as a hate crime The Equality Act does cover harassment by an individual at a place where ...
Official data flags impact of inflation on Disabled people
03 November 2022 | News
... half of Disabled adults (55 per cent) are struggling to pay their energy bills and around a third (36 per cent) are ... impacted by the cost of living crisis. Government doesn't need any more evidence of the problem, it now needs ... crisis, with additional income to meet the extra costs of disability." Some 72 per cent of people with prepayment ...
Carer Support Payment (Scotland)
23 April 2025 | Resource
Carer support payment is a benefit for people in Scotland who regularly ... support payment? Qualifying benefits What if I am working? How much do I get? Carer’s allowance supplement How do I ...
DR UK welcomes initiatives regarding disabled apprentices
12 January 2017 | News
... helpful changes to make apprenticeships more inclusive. Disability organisations like our own have proposed ways to ... employers taking on a disabled person with an education and healthcare plan aged 19 to 24 years of age. This incentive ... . This gave the language the same status as English. We are much encouraged by these moves and look to disabled ...
We respond to Govt disability employment strategy
16 December 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK urges Government to invest in the ... to enable disabled people to get employment support much more quickly than now. “At present people who are out ... the point they need it, as in Australia, is also welcome. However much depends on what is on offer after the gateway. ...
Strategic partner updates for February 2014
03 February 2014 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic ... UK’s events and workplan (lead on commissioning), and on how this will support local user-led organisations and ... in Southampton (Solent NHS Trust for both community and mental health: 27 February), Dudley (NHS Acute Trust: 28 ...
DR UK concerns over any funding settlement for health and social care
10 January 2017 | News
Independent living central to health and social care future. The future of our health and social care system is in the news today. Much of the focus of discussion has been about issues such ... all ages to be part of our communities as equal citizens. Disability Rights UK are also a signatory to a letter that ...
Over 1.5 million people were destitute in the UK in 2017
06 June 2018 | News
... in the UK 2018 report says serious physical health and mental health problems were reported by almost half of all ... A survey of people using Trussell Trust food banks showed that disabled people are at a highly disproportionate ... they received a lower rate of benefit, and also faced a much higher degree of conditionality, with an associated ...
Social Care green paper delayed yet again
19 December 2018 | News
... supposed to be published this week, before the end of 2018. However, in a new 'Brexit inspired' definition of the word ... paper and younger disabled people with Secretary of State Health and Social Care Matt Hancock on 19 December. In the ... paying for social The briefing suggests that the government does not see taxation as a ‘valid solution’. Previous ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) Statement on the parliamentary vote on Winter Fuel Payments
09 September 2024 | News
The announcement by the UK Government that the Winter Fuel Payment will be cut for up to two million pensioners could not have come at a worse time. Disability poverty is rife across the UK, with 45% of ... forced to switch off heating or deciding not to charge health-related or mobility equipment. The withdrawal of the ...