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Disability Rights UK response to joint committee report on Draft Care and Support Bill
20 March 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK urges a sustainable funding solution to the current care crisis that is ... holding disabled people back from realising our aspirations and playing a full and equal part in society. Responding to the joint ...
Government has broken equality laws during pandemic, Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary tells EHRC
20 October 2020 | News
The Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Marsha de Cordova, has urged the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to investigate the government for breaking the law over the ...
Suspension of PIP and ESA face-to-face assessments continues but kept under review
06 July 2020 | News
In March, the DWP announced the suspension of PIP and ESA ... from unnecessary risk of coronavirus at the outset of the pandemic, “will remain in place following a consideration ...
Concern and surprise over survey that showed care users do not want staff vaccinated
23 November 2021 | News
... News Service has reported on the surprise of DPOs that nearly two-thirds of people in need of social care do not support mandatory Covid vaccinations. It says that the government ...
TfL want your views on portable hearing loops and speech-to-text technology
22 February 2018 | News
Since mid-January, Transport for London have been trialling portable hearing loops and speech-to-text technology at three central London Tube stations. They are trialling these products to understand how they assist customers with hearing impairments when ...
“Enough to be able to live, not just survive”: new APPG on Poverty report into the (in)adequacy of social security
27 June 2023 | News
Following a spring 2023 inquiry, the All Party Parliamentary Group ... number of organisations, parliamentarians from all parties and others have been questioning whether benefit levels are ... its inquiry agreed that current benefit levels are too low and driving claimants into poverty. For example, as part of ...
Asthma attacks in more than a million people linked to UK cost of living crisis rationing
29 September 2022 | News
One in five (20%) people living with asthma in the UK – of ... they have been forced to make due to rising energy, food and household bills, according to the research by Asthma + ... asthma attacks after cutting back on medicine, heating and food amid the soaring cost of living crisis, a survey ...
Progress on disability rights in UK hampered by government inaction
08 October 2018 | News
Progress on disability rights in the United Kingdom: UK Independent Mechanism (UKIM) ... “UK has taken only limited steps to address the concerns and recommendations of the CRPD Committee. UKIM is ... have not seized on this important opportunity to reflect on and progress disability rights. We are concerned by the lack ...
Census 2021 data shows increase in number of Disabled people.
26 January 2023 | News
The latest findings from the 2021 Census are now available. The question asked to identify disability in England and Wales was “Do you have any physical or mental health ...
Abuse by carers should be included in Domestic Abuse Bill
13 February 2021 | News
... Jane Campbell, supported by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Stay Safe East, is making a strong argument for new clauses to be inserted within ... Abuse Bill, to cover abuse of disabled people by paid and unpaid carers. Baroness Jane Campbell will tell the ...