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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 ...
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 ...
National Campaign Launched Aiming For Step Change In Disability Justice
12 September 2024 | News
... unable to afford to eat or heat their home. Social security doesn’t cover the hidden or additional costs of disability – things like electricity to run vital ... heat their homes and power essential equipment needed for health and mobility. It will drive an increase in ...
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 ...
Why Co-Production Matters: Shaping Policy With Disabled People, Not For Them
01 July 2025 | News
Liz Leach Murphy, the chair of Disability Rights UK's board, has extensive experience ... As Chair of Disability Rights UK, I’ve seen first-hand how transformative true co-production can be—not just in ... who would be affected by the work”. But co-production doesn’t stop once the strategy is written, or the project ...
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 ...
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 ...
Changes to the definition of "terminally ill" for the purposes of PIP, DLA and AA
03 April 2023 | News
... ill” for the purposes of personal independence payment (PIP), disability living allowance (DLA), and attendance allowance ... of people in their final year of life to have their disability benefits fast-tracked available from gov.uk. ...
DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into Disabled man’s death
03 January 2025 | News
... allowance (ESA) was withdrawn. He was suffering severe mental health problems and weighed four-and-a-half stone (30kg) ... “ John Pring of the Disability News Service (DNS) has shown how the DWP spent more than a decade covering up ...
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 ...