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DPOs write to Prime Minister
07 September 2022 | News
... Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG), is a coalition of England-wide Disabled People's Organisations and allies. The group came together as a response to the growing upheaval in the country around food and energy price ...
Pause deductions from benefits to ease cost of living crisis, MPs say
26 July 2022 | News
With inflation set to peak at its highest level for 40 years, a new report from the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee highlights how deductions from ... energy, fuel and food costs, has exposed longer standing problems with the adequacy of the social security system. As ...
Covid ‘putting a rocket under’ children’s poor mental health outcomes
22 February 2021 | News
New data reported in the British Journal of Psychiatry shows that 7% of children have attempted suicide by the age of 17 and almost one in four say they have self-harmed in the past ... fears that these figures have risen even higher during the pandemic. The figures are taken from analysis of the lives of ...
Govt statistics missing 1 million disabled people
14 July 2014 | News
Official statistics missing 1 million disabled people in poverty says new report The ... Foundation are to present their findings on disabled people and routes out of poverty to parliament at the meeting of ... provided better specialist welfare-to-work programmes and early workplaces interventions, and if there were better ...
Around 60% of households with a disabled adult will be hit if £20 week UC uplift scrapped
16 February 2021 | News
... a week Universal Credit (UC) top-up will more than 700,000 into poverty, according to a new by the Fabian Society. Ministers have said that they will decide in early March whether to keep or scrap the temporary 12-month ... report shows how the cut to UC will reduce the living standards of households in many different circumstances: ...
Tell DEFRA if COVID-19 has impacted upon your food supply
23 April 2020 | News
... DEFRA would like to hear from you. Disability Rights UK continues to campaign for safe access to food and other essential items for disabled people during the ... Under Secretary of State at DEFRA is scheduled for early next week, as is a virtual meeting between, DEFRA, ...
Public Transport Failing Disabled People
06 March 2024 | News
... Rights UK's Transport policy adviser, makes a strong and unequivocal statement about the failure of public transport in the UK to meet the accessibility needs and requirements ... this grudging service provision must not continue and clearly understand that many households with a Disabled person ...
Government Calls for Evidence to Address Accessibility on Buses
14 June 2023 | News
... key regulations to improve bus accessibility. They are calling for evidence in an attempt to address the gaps in understanding by gathering information on the current effectiveness and potential evolution of the Public Service Vehicles ...
After Years of Campaigning, Government Acts to Improve Fire Safety for Disabled Residents
03 September 2024 | News
Back in 2019 the Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommended that Personal ... fire safety experts argued that existing fire safety laws and the Equality Act already required such action to be ... It has taken 7 years since the Grenfell Tower fire and almost 5 years since the Inquiry recommendations for the ...
Presenteeism: UK’s Working-While-Sick Epidemic
08 August 2024 | News
New analysis published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) finds that the ... to take sick days, especially compared with other OECD and European countries. They are more likely to turn up at ... by the IPPR include the impact on individual productivity and recovery time from short-term illness, making bad work ...