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Disability Rights UK honours the memory of Kevin Fitzpatrick, disability rights leader and campaigner
16 February 2016 | News
Kevin Fitzpatrick was one of the 12 founding commissioners of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). ... obituary Disability Rights UK honours the memory of Kevin Fitzpatrick, disability rights leader and campaigner ...
Pooling Personal Budgets
07 October 2022 | Resource
Contents Implementation of the Care Act Pooling Personal Budgets Examples Challenges Useful information ... authorities have now a legal duty to offer personal budgets and direct payments that offer you more flexibility over how ... to ensure the success of this partnership. There may be issues of concern that need to be taken account of such as: ...
Secret reviews into DWP deaths have more than doubled in three years
20 July 2022 | News
New figures show how the number of secret reviews into deaths of benefit claimants that have been linked to the failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has more than doubled over the last three ... process reviews (IPRs) into deaths between July 2019 and June 2020, 59 from July 2020 to June 2021, and 38 in the ...
Just one in ten blind people could vote in election – RNIB report
14 October 2020 | News
... has released a new report – Turned Out 2019 – about blind and partially sighted people’s experience of voting in the ... right, but the current voting system relies on sight and simply does not work for blind and partially sighted ...
DWP told to pay £50,000 to Deaf job-seeker after repeated failure to provide BSL interpreter
28 May 2024 | News
A tribunal has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to pay nearly £50,000 in damages to a Deaf man after repeatedly failing to provide ...
140 disabled people ‘incarcerated’ in hospitals due to lack of accessible housing
10 March 2020 | News
Leading learning disability charity Mencap has uncovered data ... Central, Lucy Powell, said that the council had a “moral and financial” duty to house him, following a Guardian ... Ahmed has multiple disabilities, is registered blind and uses a wheelchair but has been well enough to leave an ...
DR UK briefing on Govt initiatives to increase apprenticeships for disabled people
21 May 2018 | News
Comments on government initiatives to increase apprenticeships for disabled people and summary of DR UK Into Apprenticeships, Traineeships and Supported Internships event 2018 Read briefing DR UK ...
UNITE Magazine ceases publication
02 April 2019 | News
After 14 issues the disability rights magazine UNITE has ceased publication, effective immediately. ... that UNITE cannot afford the cost of publishing, printing and posting magazines. UNITE will also cease on social ...
Sue Bott to speak at Westminster Social Policy Forum
02 August 2017 | News
Deputy CEO Sue Bott is to speak on Key issues for the workforce in the context of Brexit and the Living Wage - challenges for recruitment and ...
54,665 ESA sanctions since 2012
18 February 2015 | News
Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance sanctions: decisions made to September ... 2014 The latest Government figures on sanctions show that, since December 2012 the DWP has issued 54,665 sanctions to ...