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Report Into Public Attitudes to Inequalities Launched
31 January 2024 | News
... Foundation have released their report entitled 'Unequal Kingdom 2024: Public Attitudes to Inequalities and their Impacts.' The poll looks into the different forms ... of inequality people in Britain are most worried about and the impact they believe inequalities have on different ...
Help Shape the Future of Intersectional DPOs in the UK – Take Part in Our Research!
09 April 2025 | News
Calling Intersectional and General DPOs. Disability Rights UK is ... research project on intersectionality in the DPO sector—and we want you to be part of it! This is more than just ...
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. ...
Universal credit: delivery causing unacceptable hardship
25 October 2018 | News
This Public Accounts Committee report finds that Universal Credit is causing unacceptable hardship and difficulties for many of the claimants it was designed ... Department’s culture of reporting good news and denying problems that emerge. In further reports in 2015 and 2016 ...
Two new mental health blogs
06 September 2016 | News
... Persons with Disabilities we have published these two blogs In Mental health disabilities and ‘will and preferences’ George Szmukler, Institute of ...
Committee grills IDS over universal credit failures
03 February 2014 | News
Yesterday Ian Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary, was questioned by the Work and Pensions Committee about setbacks in the implementation of the new Universal Credit. In an, at ... is that IDS hid failures in the IT system as well as problems with the UC timetable. Dame Anne Begg, who chairs ...