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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 ...
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 – ...
Personal Health Budgets: Treat or treatment?
31 August 2015 | News
In response to press reports concerning the use of Personal Health Budgets, Disability Rights UK calls for greater investment in support ... people living with impairments or health conditions, have shown how this can be done – by pioneering personalised ...
Disabled employees are an asset, not a cost' - DRUK CEO
27 November 2019 | News
... people will be an expensive burden – they see the disability rather than the ability. For employees, the fear ... practice firm Diversity Q. “There’s a lot of data that shows that employing a disabled person doesn’t cost more. There are government support schemes ...
DR UK: Government must re-introduce Covid protections for Disabled people
13 December 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK is calling on the Health Secretary ... DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick said: “We cannot stress enough how abandoned clinically vulnerable people feel and the ...
Government abandons commitment to halve disability employment gap?
11 May 2016 | News
The Government was elected on a manifesto commitment "disability employment gap" – the difference in employment ... will publish a White Paper focusing on the roles that the health, care and welfare sectors can play in supporting ... this summer. It is bad enough that the government spends so much of its time and resources on finding ways to deny us ...
DR UK welcomes the Govt review of 1.6 million PIP cases but...
29 January 2018 | News
... 1.6 million PIP cases , Philip Connolly, policy manager at Disability Rights UK said: “Many disabled people have lost ... is going to review 1.6 million cases. We hope this doesn’t mean that some disabled people are going to have ... is badly designed and implemented. Huge amounts of tax payer’s money is being wasted on poor quality assessments ...
Ministerial contempt for the UNCRPD?
25 October 2015 | News
... has caught the attention of rights campaigners, including Disability Rights UK, concerning the UN Convention on the ... law and to protect the integrity of public life". So far much of the criticism of this change has focused on the ... the government's claim that the amendment to the code does not reflect a substantive change. Rights Watch ...
Making Statutory Sick Pay Work: new research report
26 July 2023 | News
... Change that makes the case for reform of statutory sick pay (SSP). The research report finds that: Workers on SSP ... relying on SSP received a higher rate of employer sick pay from day one. WPI says: “The positive effects of sick ... due to exacerbating existing conditions and better public health outcomes, because people are not spreading illness by ...
Changes to Social Care must improve the lives of Disabled people
22 June 2021 | News
... social care reform by the end of this year is welcome but disability groups believe that there is a danger that the ... from current discussions being held by the Department of Health and Social Care. To address this, a Statement has ... it improves the lives of Disabled People of all ages. Does support enable us to live with dignity? Does support ...