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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 ...
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 ...
Liz Sayce Webinar on Embracing independent living in the workplace
30 January 2017 | News
Liz did an Institute of Leadership and Management webinar, which discussed ways leaders, managers and colleagues can support inclusion to achieve equal ...
International Day of Disabled People: leading us into the future
02 December 2015 | News
Imagine if we had thousands of leaders and influencers living openly with a disability or health ...
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 ...
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 ...
Govt response to PIP delays
06 January 2014 | News
On Monday 6 January Mike Penning responded to a series of questions, from MPs, on the ... Mr Jim Cunningham : To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what guidelines his Department has issued on ... take as it is important for us to get the assessment right and to give claimants the opportunity to tell the assessor ...