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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 ...
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 ...
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 Wednesdays 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 ... to inaccessible and unaffordable housing. These issues are reported daily on the media and being ...
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, ...
Accessing green space: stories from Sheffield
17 November 2023 | News
We have been re-publishing some of our older blog posts onto this new website. Enjoy the thoughts and reviews of our DR UK team and contributors! If you have ... is therefore imperative that people trying to solve access issues really listen to disabled people and work in ...
DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
27 June 2022 | News
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ignored leading academics after they published “hugely alarming” ... – his own research suggested there were “still major problems with the WCA that could lead to increased risks of ...