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DBC and DPAC urge six week extension to Green Paper consultation response time
09 August 2021 | News
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) have written an open letter to the Minister ... the consultation period for the recently published Health and Disability Green Paper. The Green Paper was published ...
MPs voice concerns over concerns over Universal Credit delays and lack of clarity
03 February 2016 | News
... - Universal Credit: progress update. Read press release and report The report summary says: “We acknowledge that Universal Credit has stabilised and made progress since the previous Committee of Public Accounts first ...
Sign the Care and Support Alliance letter today to end the care crisis
05 June 2018 | News
After surveying nearly 4,000 people, the Care and Support Alliance (CSA) ... picture of neglect. People are unable to get the basic care and support they need and enough is enough. Find out more DR ...
Philip Connolly looks back on five years at DR UK and says goodbye
28 March 2019 | News
In this, his final blog for Disability Rights UK, our policy ... Philip Connolly talks about some of his achievements and discusses a future where disabled people cooperate, create and disrupt. Read his full blog What if disabled people were ...
How could employers and services better support disabled people through sickness absence?
13 February 2018 | News
Scope are carrying out new research about taking sickness absence from work. They would like to hear your ... voucher as a thank you for your time. How could employers and services better support disabled people through sickness ...
People deprived of liberty due to misapplication of Mental Health and Capacity Acts
22 February 2021 | News
A new report from the King’s Fund shows that people are being unlawfully deprived ... Respondents said the codes of practice for the two Acts and their respective case law were difficult to understand and keep up to date with. The MCA was seen as having ...
UK’s leading Disabled People’s Organisation DR UK comment on the public hearing aspects of the Covid Inquiry
14 June 2023 | News
... “As the names of loved ones are read out loud outside the Inquiry today, and as a fifth of the population believes that Covid was a ... individual who lost their lives was precious, a loved one, and left behind so many grieving hearts. “It is vital that ...
Cabinet office fails to engage with DPOs
28 January 2019 | News
... of Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs), to the Cabinet Office, about a workshop on the barriers facing ... Disabled Peoples Organisations to express our deep dismay and concern about the total lack of engagement of Disabled ... officials from Cabinet Office, the Office for Disability Issues and ‘a small group of academics and disability ...
DWP refuse to publish analysis of £20 week Universal Credit uplift ‘as it is not in the public interest’
18 July 2021 | News
... written to Therese Coffey MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, after the DWP refused to disclose any analysis ... it has undertaken on the potential impact on poverty of cutting the weekly Universal Credit £20 uplift from October ... for it to be released. However, we believe that it is clearly in the public interest to know whether this decision ...
Citizens Advice warns of prepayment meter debt crisis
06 October 2022 | News
... prepayment energy meters by the end of 2022. CA are calling on the government to stop companies forcing people onto ... way to pay energy bills. A meter is installed in the home and topped up with credit bought either online or from a ... when someone cannot access their meter due to accessibility issues. Suppliers should carry out special checks to make ...