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Rights on Flights: DR UK and Sophie Morgan launch new campaign
22 February 2023 | News
DR UK, Disabled TV presenter Sophie Morgan and MP Marion Fellows have launched a new campaign to demand ... grants the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) the powers to fine airlines and other actors if they fail to look after ... holding airlines and/or other actors to account when such issues arise. Charters and codes of conduct would not work. ...
How Membership Organisations Benefit from Self Service Portals
04 April 2022 | News
Having worked with membership organisations of all shapes and sizes for many years we’ve learnt a huge amount about ... (ITSM) practices that permits users to solve their own issues without the need for directly contacting a support ... automated solutions which empower people to solve their own problems. Let’s consider why there’s such a high desire ...
Women and Equalities Select Committee: pandemic has had “profoundly adverse effects” on disabled people’s access to services
21 December 2020 | News
... suffered a range of profoundly adverse effects from the pandemic, including starkly disproportionate deaths, says a report ... a range of profoundly adverse effects. They have faced problems with unequal access to food, and potentially ...
People with common mental disorders have incomes two-thirds that of people without those conditions: new research report
07 February 2021 | News
Those with common mental disorders. like anxiety and depression have typical annual incomes just two-thirds ... has found that one in five people with mental health problems – equivalent to 3.7m people across the UK – say ... well as long term changes to tackle the systemic employment issues which have driven the “mental health income ...
Food bank use increases by thirteen per cent
06 November 2018 | News
... foodbank supplies to people in crisis between April and September 2018, a 13% increase on the same period in ... of benefit levels to cover essential living costs and issues with payments remain the most common reasons for ... not the only benefit people at foodbanks are experiencing problems with the new system is increasingly driving ...
DR UK demands set targets for disabled people’s employment in industrial strategy response
12 April 2017 | News
... Rights UK response to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy consultation “Building our ... working links at all levels with the Office for Disability Issues. Introduction Disability Rights UK is a national ... of thought processes that bring new perspectives on problems and hence better solutions. The sheer diversity of ...
Bedroom tax help inadequate says Ken Butler
27 May 2013 | News
... welfare rights officer for Disability Rights UK, said ministers had claimed there would be no evictions as a result ... effects of the bedroom tax are already being felt. Already nearly a thousand people have received notice of arrears letters in ...
DR UK response to the Welfare Safety Net Inquiry
13 February 2019 | News
Disability Rights UK response to the Work and Pensions Welfare Safety Net Inquiry More about the ... to disabled people, particularly in respect of benefit issues. DR UK run a second-tier advice line where we assist ... in.” The Special Rapporteur highlights several endemic problems with the new benefit, including its inbuilt delay ...
It’s Time To “Stop the Witch-Hunt” Against Flexible Working, Says Coalition of Unions and Equality Campaigners
07 October 2024 | News
Unions and equality campaigners have today, on Monday 7th October, ... the truth.” Pointing to the recruitment and retention problems facing employers the organisations say: “There ... workforce than before the pandemic, and one of the biggest issues facing employers is recruiting and retaining skilled ...
High Court rejects application for second Jodey Whiting inquest
21 September 2021 | News
... second inquest into her death. Jodey Whiting, 42 years old and a mother-of-nine and grandmother from Stockton-on-Tees, ... and so missed the WCA. Jodey had severe mental health problems. She had also been ill with pneumonia and receiving ... who lived with serious long-term physical and mental health issues, was desperately let down by the DWP but this ...