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The APPDG meets with Mike Penning
07 January 2014 | News
Philip Connolly, DR UK Policy and Communications Manager reports on the meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Disability Group (APPDG) ... from 50 m to 20 m in the PIP assessment, given legal issues, but he did venture one opinion, “It was arbitrary ...
Did the National Disability Strategy look to address climate change and Covid?
09 February 2022 | News
The Oxford Disability Law and Policy Project has published its Up to the Challenge report examining the National Disability Strategy. To mark COP26 and Disability History Month, the Oxford University ...
Biggest increase in redundancies since financial crash
15 September 2020 | News
The UK labour market has lost almost 700,000 jobs since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak in March, ... Times. Over five million workers remain on furlough, and The Daily Telegraph reports that pay in real terms ... at disabled people, specialist disability job coaches and improvements to the Access to Work scheme.” Biggest ...
Monitoring and Evaluation: An online resource to support Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs)
30 January 2024 | Resource
... notes are aimed at Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs) and are divided into different sections for ease of use. They provide an ... hyperlinks for those people wanting in-depth information and real-life examples. Monitoring and Evaluation: An online ...
Attendance Allowance
23 April 2025 | Resource
... allowance if you are disabled, have reached pension age and need help to look after yourself. You do not actually have to be getting any help. It is the help you need that is important. In ... diaries can be useful when explaining more sporadic problems caused by your condition, such as stumbles, falls ...
Train companies team up to improve accessibility for disabled customers
17 October 2016 | News
Train operators TransPennine Express (TPE) and Northern have ... Disability Action Alliance and the Office for Disability Issues commented: “I am very pleased to have been part ...
DR UK joins BT in new football initiative
03 February 2020 | News
BT has today launched the 4-3-3 strategy, bringing together the four Home Nations in partnership with ... Associations, three communities - grassroots, women and disability and para communities, and three goals: Develop new ...
Dis Life: Insisting on helping a disabled person who doesn't ask for help is ableism
06 January 2023 | News
... the moment a lady repeatedly asked her if she was ok and if she needed help after seeing her with her crutches. It was a cold and frosty evening. The wind whipping through my jumper, I ...
The Accessible Information Standard is now in force
01 August 2016 | News
The Accessible Information Standard aims to make sure that people who have ... and find out how to meet their needs. Record those needs clearly and in a set way. Highlight or ‘flag’ the ...
Vital COVID information is inaccessible to BSL users
20 December 2020 | News
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the majority of important health information provided by the UK government has not been in ... interpreter, at key briefings throughout the course of the pandemic. The UK Government claimed that it met its duties, ...