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£20 week UC uplift must be kept and extended says APPG of MPs on poverty
31 January 2021 | News
... Credit (UC) top up, worth £1,050 a year, to be retained and extended beyond April 2021 and for the benefit cap to be suspended. THE APPG says that ...
New DWP and RNIB training partnership to better support Universal Credit claimants with sight loss
30 September 2019 | News
All DWP Jobcentre Plus staff are now able to access new training through an online portal which offers information and advice to better support claimants with sight loss. The ... causes of sight loss, barriers faced by those with first-hand experience of visual impairment and the best ways to ...
DR UK and allies write to Prime Minister about "ongoing assault on Disabled people's rights"
08 May 2024 | News
... Organisations, Trade Unions, Anti-racism organisations and Migrant Rights Groups have written to the Prime Minister to condemn the recent onslaught of attacks from the ... terms, condemned the government’s failures, having had nearly eight years to make progress since the UN's last ...
Get Yourself Active goes to make some sporting sense and says thank you to Iyiola
31 May 2018 | News
... Officer for Get Yourself Active went to the Sporting Sense Summit at the Lee Valley Velodrome. After it he ... this report on the event, which included trying out a hand cycle. So do read it and share it with anyone who might be interested. And as ...
Disabled people asked to help to design a social security system of dignity, respect and trust
19 June 2019 | News
Disabled people and others with personal experience of claiming benefits are leading a ground-breaking project to devise ... in which claimants would be treated with dignity, trust and respect. The Commission on Social Security, led by ...
Half of people with a learning disability and autistic people reluctant to provide feedback on care
18 March 2021 | News
... research from the CQC has revealed that people with a learning disability or autism are more reluctant to give ... the lived experience of people with a learning disability and/or autistic people has to be at the centre of how we decide to regulate and improve care. It is so important to hear their voices ...
Safeguarding adults review slams ‘confused’ enquiry into learning-disabled men’s injuries
22 April 2018 | News
A botched safeguarding enquiry into similar injuries sustained by two learning-disabled men made it impossible to clearly establish their causes, a scathing report has found. ... responses to broken legs suffered by Matthew Bates and Gary Lewis within a 24-hour period at the same care ...
Two new blogs on the experiences of disabled people in institutions
01 December 2015 | News
... blogs today look back at the experiences of disabled people in institutions. Institutions have long been a feature of the ‘care’ of disabled people, and it is only in very recent times that they have been come ... two pieces tell very different stories, but they show clearly why we at Disability Rights UK believe that ...
Think Local Act Personal launches a report on lived experience of access to care and support
22 October 2020 | News
The TLAP Insight group (TIG) which makes up a group of organisations with key insight and expertise within the social care sector have reported that the lived experience of people accessing care and support during the pandemic can be greatly improved ...
MP calls for face mask exemption awareness campaign
04 November 2020 | News
Disabled people who are unable to wear face coverings due to their impairments, are continuing to encounter hostility from some retail and transport staff and members of the general public. Whilst the exemptions are clearly set out in regulations, there has been a failure by ...