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New To Nature work placements for young disabled people
15 October 2022 | News
... the National Lottery Heritage Fund announced a £2million investment to create 70 paid placements for young people ... 18-25 given new, full-time, temporary jobs in nature and landscape organisations across the UK, increasing diversity ...
Disabled people take complaints about UK Government’s rights record to the United Nations
20 August 2017 | News
Deaf and Disability organisations from across the United Kingdom will today (21 August) highlight the Government’s ongoing human rights violations and evasive behaviour towards a major United Nations ...
Social care may face 21% cuts, warns Labour
13 May 2020 | News
The Labour Party is warning that councils may have to brace themselves for cuts of ... James Jamieson has estimated councils will need nearly £13bn to tackle the crisis this year. The news comes ... Birmingham, Solihull, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Sunderland, Derbyshire and Coventry, all implemented easements to ...
Motorway service stations can now apply for funding to become fully accessible
10 April 2019 | News
The Department for Transport is partnering with Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK) to award the money for ... Places toilets, which are expected to be ready by the early 2020s. Read press release More than a quarter of a million people across the UK cannot use standard accessible toilets, meaning that they are forced to ...
DWP pilot making managed payments to social landlords at same time as tenant receives their UC payment
19 December 2019 | News
The DWP’s Change Director General, Neil Couling, has indicated to social landlords that changes to the Universal Credit (UC) rental ... approach out to all Social Landlords on the Landlord Portal early in 2020.” DRUK’s Welfare Rights and Policy Adviser ...
ESA support during reconsiderations
04 June 2014 | News
Get your MP to sign Early Day motion (EDM) 4 Support for people during reconsideration of employment and support allowance refusals That this House notes that at ...
DWP must take urgent action to ensure mandatory medical requirements are not placed on UC claimants, says SSAC
24 September 2019 | News
In a new report, the Social Security Advisory Committee ... which will be determined by an individual’s capability and circumstances. It is these work-related requirements ... to act … Claimants with physical and mental health problems were less likely than other claimants to feel that ...
Government Consultation on Measures to Reduce Health Related Job Loss
28 August 2019 | News
The Government has published Health is everyone’s business , a public consultation seeking views on different ways in which government and employers can take action to reduce ill health-related ... absence lasting at least four weeks. Offering flexibility, early support and occupational health advice are the key to ...
Government policies on rail travel to seriously disadvantage Disabled people
12 May 2023 | News
... wrote to Mark Harper, Secretary of State for Transport, raising our deep concerns about the major impact on Disabled ... numbers of support staff; driver operated trains; and proposed ticket office closures. We highlighted ... impact on disabled people. In a response received in early 2022 the then Minister of State for Transport Wendy ...
Sign up for our 2019/20 Leadership Academy Programme
13 February 2019 | News
... programme for employees with lived experience of disability and/or long-term health conditions. Delegate recruitment ... flyer Mentor recruitment flyer DR UK is now recruiting for the 2019/20 cohort of its flagship Leadership ... and are offered on a first come first served basis, so early applications are advised. If you are interested in ...