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Sue Bott submits Ideal for All petition
30 July 2013 | News
Sue Bott from Disability Rights UK who have been supporting Ideal for All in their campaign to stop cuts to their independent living centre, hands over the petition to Sandwell’s Director of Social ... charity in Sandwell, could be forced to close its doors as early as October 2013 to disabled people due to severe cuts ...
DR UK says figures for rejected PIP mandatory reconsiderations a disgrace
13 December 2016 | News
In over 80% of mandatory reconsiderations the Personal ... success rate of PIP appeals the figures for rejected PIP mandatory reconsiderations are a disgrace. PIP has now been ... hope that the second independent review of PIP will report early in the new year and recommend root and branch changes ...
Disabled people excluded from mass participation event trials
21 April 2021 | News
Government guidance is causing venues to directly discriminate against Disabled people ... exclude ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ people from early-access large scale public events as part of its Events ... Programme (ERP) terms as a ‘pilot event’. The data and analysis from this event will be fed back directly to ...
DR UK comments on Lord Freud debate
27 October 2014 | News
Breaking through low expectations – comments from Disability ... to enable more disabled people to get decent work, at and above the minimum wage. We urge politicians on all sides ... and are now pressing Government to fix the significant problems with Access to Work. DR UK comments on Lord Freud ...
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 ...
DR UK Statement on Upcoming Spring Budget
05 March 2024 | News
As Jeremy Hunt stands in front of parliament this Wednesday to announce his Spring ... he will do so having been in receipt of the frankest and most demanding letter sent by the Disability Poverty ... inaccessible and unaffordable housing. These issues are reported daily on the media and being ...
Smart tech rail ticket machines not fit for Disabled people
11 January 2023 | News
... Rights UK is concerned that some new changes which are coming to train stations that could catch-out travellers using smart systems and ticket vending machines inappropriately may coincidently cause unnecessary worry for Disabled and older passengers, particularly for those who are ...
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 ...
Applying for Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA)
06 March 2025 | Resource
Contents Introduction Awarding authorities Who can get DSA? Which ... for DSA? Undergraduate courses Nursing, midwifery and other professions allied to medicine Part-time courses ... to another course? What happens if I leave my course early? Administration of DSA Payments Appeals and complaints ...
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 ...