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The SEND Review: why Austerity is still the watchword
07 October 2022 | News
... published its much-anticipated Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Review, which set out its proposals ... system across the country. Whether these proposed changes in processes will lead to a tangible change in practice is ... Disabled children have not improved. This suggests that the problems policy makers are trying to fix are the abilities ...
DR UK welcomes the opportunity to administer the EnAble Fund
04 December 2018 | News
Commenting on the announcement of the £250,000 fund to support ... we need to hear more voices from disabled people on local issues. Around 10% of local councillors are disabled, but ... are disabled. ‘This fund will provide practical help and support to try and close that gap. Help with issues like ...
Esther McVey makes statement on ESA arrears: Public Accounts Committee responds
18 July 2018 | News
Employment and Support Allowance statement - following the publication of the Public Accounts Committee report ... when converting Incapacity Benefit claims to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) between 2011 and 2014 was ...
Our response to the Blue Badge scheme consultation on eligibility
15 March 2018 | News
This Department for Transport consultation examines the Blue Badge Scheme with a view to making regulations and guidance clearer for people with non-physical ... of Personal Independence Payment, for non-physical mobility issues Disability Rights UK response summary DR UK strongly ...
Disabled People Still Facing Mask Discrimination – DR UK writes to Chair of Police Chiefs Council
14 January 2021 | News
Disabled people still facing mask discrimination – DR UK writes to Chair of Police ... Watch, Mencap, the Royal National Institute for Deaf People and the Survivors Trust to write to the Chair of the ... an exemption." No such requirement exists in law. West Midlands Police Force has twice had to apologise for its ...
2019 Benefit and Pension rates published
22 November 2018 | News
A list of the benefit rates and pension rates for 2019 to 2020. So far we have the Benefit and pension rates from April 2019 to 2020. As other rates are published (Tax Credits, Child Benefit, Tax and NI) we will put them on our website here 2019 Benefit ...
Civil Society strategy and disabled people
28 October 2018 | News
Presentation to the Office of Civil society, within DCMs, by Disability Rights UK Policy and Development Manager, Philip Connolly. View presentation Civil Society strategy and disabled people ...
Post-16 Education and Skills Pathways event
15 October 2017 | News
Sixteen-What Next? Disability and Post-16 Education and Skills Pathways - held at Resource for London, 19th ... the Department for Education, National Development Team for Inclusion, Further Education Colleges, service providers, ...
Aspires proposed Housing and Planning Bill amendment
03 February 2016 | News
... practical help to people who have been paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury; it can happen to anyone at any time and no one is prepared for how it will change their life. ... including disabled people – in their local plans, this clearly isn’t happening on the scale needed. Research ...
Kamran Mallick's Christmas and New Year message
18 December 2019 | News
I wanted to wish you all a Happy Christmas and to thank you for your membership and faith in us in 2019. It has been a busy year, and at times a ...