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93% of Disabled and Older People Affected by Limited Bus Service Options
09 August 2023 | News
... has found that bus service cuts of around 2000 routes since 2021 are hitting Disabled and older people the hardest, contributing to isolation and greater difficulty leaving home. The latest information ...
DPOs seek participation in COVID Public Inquiry
06 September 2022 | News
The first module of the COVID Public Inquiry , which focuses on pre-pandemic planning, starts next April. 13 DPOs have applied ... including accessing relevant documents, making opening and closing submissions and identifying questions for ...
Surveys on EHRC inquiry into disabled housing
10 January 2018 | News
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are investigating the chronic lack of accessible and adaptable housing available for disabled people in ...
Disability Hate Crime rises but only 1% see prosecutions
11 October 2022 | News
... reveal that disability hate crime has more than doubled in the last four years, yet research by charities highlight ... only 1% of reports led to prosecution. Leonard Cheshire and United Response found that, out of more than 11,000 ... disparity between reports and prosecutions. The fact that nearly all reports go no further highlights how Disabled ...
Understanding Disabled People's Housing Pathways: Initial Insights
04 January 2016 | News
This research collects and analyses information on disabled people's experiences when trying to find a suitable home that met their needs and that they could afford. The research found that disabled ...
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 ...
Inquiry into supported housing funding reform launched
18 December 2016 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee and the Communities and Local Government Committee launch a joint inquiry into the Government's funding reform for ...
Large increase in disability employment discrimination cases
19 January 2020 | News
Financial Times analysis finds large increase in disability ... discrimination cases going to tribunal each quarter, and in the most recently data covering July to September ... to justice remain for disabled people. Cuts to legal aid and the lack of support for law centres means many disabled ...
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 ...
MPs tell Government to review the use and impacts of benefit sanctions
20 February 2017 | News
In its latest report, the Public Accounts Committee says ... variations in the use of benefit sanctions are unacceptable and must be addressed. View report recommendations In Disability Rights UK’s response to the DWP, Health and Disability Green Paper “Improving Lives” we noted ...