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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
DWP Announces Major WCA Changes for New ESA and UC Claimants from 2025
24 November 2023 | News
... capability assessment (WCA) descriptor consultation only ending on 30 October, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has now published its full response. ... is not subject to change, new claimants of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and universal credit (UC) will ...
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 ...
New report says sanctioning disabled people does not work and makes them ill
21 May 2018 | News
This report summarises the final findings of the Welfare Conditionality project (2013-2018) on the effectiveness, impacts and ethics of welfare conditionality, and the sanctions and mandatory support that underpin this ...
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 ...
Charities call for delivery charges and minimum spends to be scrapped for shielders
15 December 2020 | News
DR UK is supporting calls for supermarkets to scrap delivery charges for ... which leads a consortium on food access during the pandemic including DR UK, is appealing for action as people ... who cannot shop in supermarkets due to health risks – and at the advice of the Government – are being unfairly ...
Challenging PIP Decisions training course - Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th September
09 September 2024 | News
Challenging PIP Decisions Cost £152 (10% discount for DR UK ... introduced on the same day as universal credit back in 2013 and PIP is now the main disability benefit for working age ... possibly the worst of all social security benefits, with nearly 70% of appealed decisions reversed by tribunal judges ...
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 ...