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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...


  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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: ...

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  • 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, ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Council urged to bring forward decision to end social care charging

    20 March 2023 | News

    ... with its "bold" decision to become just the second council in England to abolish all charges for care and support for Disabled ... and support services from April 2024, likely affecting nearly 1,300 who currently pay a charge for in-home care, ...

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