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Disabled households worse off on Universal Credit breakthrough test case win
12 May 2020 | News
A single mother with a disabled daughter and a woman with ... disadvantage legacy benefit claimants. Especially when nearly half of all those living in poverty live in a ...
The transition from being a Disabled child to becoming a Disabled adult by Emily Nicole Roberts
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 ... Being a disabled child began for me with naivety. In my early years, I was simply just a child, then, I began ...
Could Care Act fail from poor funding?
06 August 2014 | News
... press release states that 9 out of 10 councils are warning that a lack of adequate Government funding could ... of the adult social care system under the new Care Act Problems with funding could place care services out of reach for thousands of people, their families and their carers. The LGA has ...
Summer festival accessibility
15 June 2015 | News
Blue Badge Style have gathered some information about the headliners at the biggest festivals and also looked into their disabled access ... Access All Areas campaign seeks to highlight the problems disabled people face when seeing live music, as ...
Unison homecare study shows effect of cuts on care provision
28 January 2016 | News
An online survey of just over 1000 homecare workers finds them inadequately trained and with less time to allowed to provide care. They are ... they are being denied access to vital knowledge, new skills and career opportunities, the survey finds. Inadequate ...
Channel 4 subtitles won’t run until November
21 October 2021 | News
... won’t run until November Channel 4 subtitles, signing and audio description are unlikely to return to TV until ... to the new system we are building,” Channel 4 said. “Clearly, if we can do anything to speed up this process, we ...
Atos withdraws most DLA medical support
17 November 2013 | News
An internal bulletin to DWP staff says that Atos Healthcare ... which has been providing medical services for DLA and AA claims will now only be doing this on a “a revised ... decision makers. Decision makers have no medical training and depend on opinions from medical experts to help them ...
Survey of Adult Social Care reveals major challenges
26 July 2022 | News
Just one in eight directors of adult social care services in England are confident they have the resources to meet their ... but growing economic turbulence is rapidly deepening our problems and concerns. We need action and funding now to ...
DWP enters legal agreement with EHRC to improve services for deaf claimants
18 August 2020 | News
The DWP has entered a legally binding agreement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to improve support for ... the DWP has committed to an action plan to address the problems these complaints identified. The action plan ...
Call for an end to prescription charges for people with long term conditions
10 March 2013 | News
... Disability Rights UK is a member, has published a report into the effects of prescription charges on people with long ... people with conditions, such as heart disease, arthritis and many others, are having to choose between food, ... their conditions effectively, leading to more severe health problems and extra costs to the NHS and society as a whole. ...