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See how DR UK celebrates National Fitness Day
25 September 2018 | News
... Instead of writing about why you should get fit we’re showing the different ways that some of our staff at Disability Rights UK keep ourselves physically active. And ... got the pictures to prove it too! Read our blog See how DR UK celebrates National Fitness Day ...
DWP to stop ‘cold-calling’ Disabled people to make low benefit ‘offers’
14 July 2021 | News
... and settle the claim. Evidence gathered over many months showed that: Disabled benefits claimants who had appealed a ... amount of personal resilience and determination. Our client does not stand to gain any sort of pay-out here, she is doing this simply to make sure that ...
Unhidden at London Fashion Week
02 March 2022 | News
... arm training people with disabilities and chronic health conditions how to sew adaptive alterations so they can then work as and ... they choose making adaptive alterations for any one who doesn't sew. You can watch a video that Unhidden made for ...
APPG latest: Ahead of the Arc and our international outlook
04 July 2018 | News
... an event with Hope and Homes for Children, looking at how best to combat the institutionalisation of disabled ... remain in close contact with the DWP’s Joint Work and Health Unit. This is a particularly important relationship ... until the requisite research highlighting what works/ does not work has been undertaken. With a view to hastening ...
Universal Credit will be cut by £20 per week from April 2021
27 September 2020 | News
... those claimants will be up to £1040 a year better off. However, an analysis of the Chancellor’s renewed package ... Those flowing onto Universal Credit will not only see much large hits to their incomes, but the Chancellor ... week limited capability for work addition has no longer payable to new claimants of ESA. By ringfencing the £20 ...
How Nordic Walking keeps Nina Bergonzi physically active
23 October 2018 | News
... Mulvey, Research and Engagement Officer at: kirsty.mulvey@disabilityrights.uk.org . How Nordic Walking keeps Nina Bergonzi physically active ...
No more avoidable deaths: hospitals must be safe places for disabled people
12 September 2018 | News
Today, on world sepsis day, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has published a case about an ... death from sepsis both demonstrate that the NHS needs to go much further in ensuring that staff have received disability equality and awareness training and that they ...
Scrap Tories Proposed WCA Reforms: Open Letter From DR UK And Allies To New Work And Pensions Secretary
09 July 2024 | News
... 9 other ally organisations - including Z2K Mind, Rethink Mental Illness Sense , the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and ... or are comprised of Disabled people and people with serious health conditions; and anti-poverty organisations to ask for ... more likely to live in poverty, and recent research has shown that two thirds of people currently living in ...
See how Human Rights can increase care support
09 July 2014 | News
Everyday rights - when we need more help if we have a disability Go to YouTube page for accessible transcript ... of life. Equally Ours aims to help everyone to understand how human rights benefit all of us here in the UK, every ... voluntary organisations together to share their stories of how human rights matter to the people they support – ...
DRUK responds to supported housing consultation
23 January 2018 | News
... 42% had a physical disability, and 5% had a significant mental health problem). This means that any change to the current ... rights, entitlement and choice to a discretionary system. However, the latest consultation instead proposes a very ...