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UK violating its human rights obligations finds UN poverty expert
21 May 2019 | News
... Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK, that examines how cuts to the welfare system, have left many families with ... impoverishment of single mothers and people experiencing mental ill health. While Professor Alston acknowledges there have been ...
Disability pay gap increases to highest level since 2013
24 May 2018 | News
... £1.50 an hour less on average than non-disabled workers Disability pay gap has increased to a 4-year high of 15% A new TUC ... And employers should talk to their disabled workers about how to make work more accessible. “Disabled people can get ...
Strategic partner updates for May 2013
21 May 2013 | News
... Health England. We have used this opportunity to reconsider how we can promote investment in and use of the lived ... is necessary. However, with the case studies very much reduced in substance (and shifted to Annex E) an ... Disability Rights UK members and our networks of the fundamental changes following the Health and Social Care Act 2012 ...
Labour Party: disability benefit reform 2015
21 August 2013 | News
... Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne set out the Labour Party's disability benefit and wider welfare reform agenda for 2015. ... Mr. Byrne highlighted that even if spending on ESA appeals doesn’t increase any further over the next two years that ... for the disabled to help them into work and tackling low pay. That means a stronger link between the contribution ...
Met Police officer fired after assaulting black child with learning disabilities
05 May 2021 | News
A 17 year-old who was an inpatient at a mental health unit was repeatedly struck by a Metropolitan (Met) ... girl also flagged down a police car, and body-cam footage shows her telling its occupants she had mental health ...
Covid Inquiry will consider impact of pandemic on Disabled people
17 July 2022 | News
... race. The organisations remain concerned that the Inquiry doesn’t intend to examine the Government’s current ... not I qualified as ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’, how to access a supply of PPE, how to remain supported by my personal healthcare team if I needed to go to hospital, and whether ...
DR UK warns Severe Disability Premium claimants to ‘seek robust advice’, as UC changes take effect
26 January 2021 | News
... a two-year moratorium on moving people who claim Severe Disability Premiums (SDPs) to Universal Credit (UC) has come ... Credit system instead of being ringfenced. “Not knowing how much money people will have causes increased stress and ...
Commissioning advocacy under the Care Act
29 October 2014 | News
... being involved in the care and support process, and does not have an appropriate individual to support them. The ... for existing advocacy services – including independent mental capacity advocacy and independent mental health advocacy – and consider what additional resources ...
FutureFit: how tech can get everyone moving more
07 June 2018 | News
... Policymakers Researchers Anyone with an interest in sport, health, innovation or tech 1.5 million of us don’t manage ... explore the reasons why some people aren’t exercising and how the worlds of fitness, sport, innovation and technology ... sporting history was made in 2012. FutureFit: how tech can get everyone moving more ...
English Blue Badge scheme to include those with hidden disabilities
29 July 2018 | News
People with hidden disabilities, including autism and mental health conditions are to be given the right to a Blue Badge. ... for more detailed information you can order a copy of the Disability Rights Handbook from our shop English Blue Badge ...