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  • Survey: Accessing Cervical Screening (Smear Test) with a Physical Disability

    20 March 2019 | News

    This survey is for women and people with a cervix with a physical disability or physically debilitating symptoms as a result of a long-term health condition. Go ... with a physical disability there can be additional barriers and inequalities to accessing the test. Sharing your ...

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  • Understanding Welfare Support and Sanctions

    23 September 2014 | News

    Welfare Conditionality would like to invite your organisation to support a major national ... project   What is the research about? Welfare support and benefits increasingly require people to meet particular conditions and behave in certain ways. This study aims to understand ...

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  • Disabled entrepreneurs and new technology

    20 July 2015 | News

    ... University of Salford academics, Disability Rights UK and University of Dundee is set to launch a series of events ... people enter the world of entrepreneurship.   The ‘In the making’ project will focus on digital business and the ways in which disabled people can harness the power ...

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  • Monitoring poverty and social exclusion

    23 November 2014 | News

    This annual report, written by the New Policy Institute (NPI) for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, assesses the progress in tackling poverty and disadvantage across the UK The report focuses on money, housing, work, benefits and services, among other indicators. Key findings Poverty ...

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  • Passenger Assistance and Lift Failures

    22 July 2025 | News

    Approaches to DR UK show that there are many instances of passengers not receiving the Passenger ... survey had not received assistance at all when requested, and a large proportion of this is due to station infrastructure. The Office for Rail and Road have noted a 9% increase in lifts failures in the ...

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  • Advocacy and social care report

    05 February 2014 | News

    ... impact of advocacy, by the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) has found that a lack of robust evidence ... School of Social Care Research (SSCR), the NDTi gathered and reviewed the evidence available on the impact of ... who need support. Alison Macadam, NDTi Project Manager and co-author of the Scoping Review said: “Our review ...

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  • Fuel poverty and disabled people

    09 February 2015 | News

    Two new research reports have been published looking at fuel poverty and disabled people One from Leicester university’s Centre for Consumers and Essential Services considers the difficulties many ...

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  • Disabled entrepreneurs and new technology

    16 November 2015 | News

    In this article our Policy and Development Officer Philip Connelly talks about our In the Making Project He notes that if young unemployed ... the economy.” Read the full article in the Engineering and Technology Magazine Disabled entrepreneurs and new ...

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  • Universal credit and health benefits

    28 May 2013 | News

    Patients in receipt of Universal Credit in North-West England will qualify for NHS sight tests and optical vouchers anywhere in the UK, confirmed the ...

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  • Media and culture round-up

    09 February 2022 | News

    ... has cast its first ever Disabled Richard III. The medieval king, who is believed to have had scoliosis, will be played ... centre stage," he said. "Richard is the most murderous and charismatic character in Shakespeare's plays, and…he’s disabled! "It’s sadly rare in many plays to ...

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