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Helpline Closure over the Christmas and New Year Period
14 December 2023 | News
As we approach the end of 2023, we would like to inform you about the upcoming temporary closures of our helpline services. Disabled Students Helpline and Personal Budgets Helpline : Closed from 18th December ... from 22nd December 2023. Our Disabled Students Helpline and Personal Budgets Helplines will resume their normal ...
Benefit sanctions main reason for food bank resort
07 December 2014 | News
An All-Party inquiry into hunger and food poverty in Britain has ... do more with surplus unsold products. Of benefit -related problems the report says: “There is a clear moral case to ...
Unions and campaigners call for government to improve flexible working rights
25 July 2023 | News
After the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill came into law last week, unions, rights groups including Disability Rights UK, and women’s organisations have come together to call on the government to go further and deliver on its manifesto commitments to unlock flexible ...
Excess winter deaths hit record high at over fifty thousand
03 December 2018 | News
... by the Office for National Statistics estimate that in 2017/18 there were an estimated 50,100 excess winter deaths between December and March in England and Wales. Read more Office for ... hospitals by tackling the avoidable illnesses and health problems linked to living in a cold home.” Disability ...
The Disability Rights Handbook: A Brief History
18 January 2024 | News
The current editor of our Disability Rights Handbook, Ian Greaves, takes us through the history of the Disability Rights UK Handbook - which is nearly 50 years old! THE EARLY YEARS The Disability Rights ... began its life as pamphlet produced by the new campaigning organisation Disability Alliance. Disability Alliance ...
What the new Bus Services Act offers disabled people
28 November 2017 | News
The Bus Services Act 2017: new powers and opportunities View document The Bus Services Act 2017 ... the Act is to improve bus services for passengers by providing local authorities, the Secretary of State and bus ... arrangements it is recommended that they: Consult at an early stage with disabled people and groups that represent ...
PPM ban temporary as Ofgem prepares report on energy suppliers
22 February 2023 | News
The recent ban on the forced installation of Prepayment meters (PPMs) in the homes of ... operating on behalf of energy firms, were entering homes, and installing PPMs regardless of the households’ personal ... personal stories that include a customer with mobility issues, emphysema, arthritis, and brittle bone disease ...
Scrap six months campaign victory: fast-tracked access to benefits for people with terminal illness expanded
11 July 2021 | News
In response to the Scrap 6 Months campaign led by the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) and Marie Curie, the Government has pledged to make it ... vital financial support quicker than they can do at present and at the highest rate through revised Special Rules. The ...
PM asked to fix social care
06 September 2022 | News
The Care and Support Alliance (CSA) has responded to research from Age UK by calling on the new Prime Minister Liz Truss to urgently provide ... their social care needs met such as washing, toileting, and eating and have called for huge investment in the care ...
Disabled people deserve better support for work schemes
03 March 2013 | News
... failure of the government’s programmes, Work Programme and Work Choice, to help disabled people into work. The Work Programme helped just over 1,000 out of ... for instance with people with serious mental health problems (who face the very greatest barriers to employment ...