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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MPs tell Government to review the use and impacts of benefit sanctions
20 February 2017 | News
... In Disability Rights UK’s response to the DWP, Health and Disability Green Paper “Improving Lives” we ... towards protecting vulnerable ESA claimants (people with mental health conditions, learning difficulties, conditions ... approaches work best, and why, and what is not working. It does not know whether vulnerable people are protected as ...
Adult Disability Payment (Scotland)
16 May 2025 | Resource
Adult disability payment (ADP) is a benefit for people in Scotland between ... on: What is ADP? Who is eligible? How you are assessed Starting your claim ... a paper copy of our guide using the link below. Adult Disability Payment (Scotland) ...
We condemn taxi firm disability policy
14 January 2014 | News
... of Russia Sue Bott, Director of Policy and Development at Disability Rights UK, said: "Disabled people shouldn't be ... but for goodness' sake, it all works out in the end, doesn't it? I really can't understand why they see a problem ... doesn't fit into a 'normal' taxi. Why should they have to pay extra for being disabled? You have to wonder where this ...
PIP: The reasonable wishes of a claimant to walk further or more frequently must be considered
14 May 2017 | News
... should not be based on a supposed “objective test” of how far a disabled person or how often they need to “move ... and why should she not? He adds that: “... a tribunal does not need to accept the genuineness of an extreme ... should have seen this as going beyond engagement with health professionals and family members, taking into account ...