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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 ...
Commission Launches Major Report on Health and Social Care Reform
13 September 2023 | News
Today marks the launch of the Institute for Public Policy Research's new report entitled For Public Health and Public Finances: Reforming Health and Social Care. The report goes into the ways we need a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Online Benefits Training Courses
15 July 2020 | News
... know your UC from your PIP? Confused by the range of health and disability benefits? DR UK offers two essential online courses, each run in two parts and facilitated by an ... and a comprehensive training pack. Courses sell out fast so early booking is encouraged. Each course costs £125 + VAT ...
COVID had an outsized impact on Disabled people of colour
27 February 2023 | News
Initial findings from the National Commission on COVID-19, Disablism, and Systemic Racism , reported by Saba Salman at the Byline ... Disabled people, families, carers and social care staff. Early findings are based on surveys and submissions from ...
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 ...