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Volunteer charter launched
09 December 2014 | News
Disability Rights UK has been working with Community Service Volunteers and the Disability Action Alliance to produce a Charter to ... to disabled people who want to volunteer including such issues as transport and attitudes towards disabled people. ...
London DPO calls on Mayoral candidates to commit to fair ULEZ charges
27 April 2021 | News
Action Disability Kensington and Chelsea (ADKC) has issued an Open Letter requesting all the London Mayoral candidates commit to providing the same reasonable ...
Anger over NHS Trust disabled parking fees
10 August 2015 | News
... 1 September, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Pinderfields, Dewsbury and Pontefract Hospitals, will charge blue badge holders up ... effect. "The lack of funding in the NHS is a national issue and is going to need a national solution and I do not think ...
NHS hospitals fail to investigate most deaths of inpatients with learning disabilities
20 December 2015 | News
Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, is facing calls for a nationwide inquiry into the deaths of highly ... that just one in seven such fatalities in hospitals in England have been investigated. Data released to the Guardian ... freedom of information laws show that hospitals in England have investigated just 209 out of 1,436 deaths of ...
High Court rules Access to Work cap is not unlawful
19 August 2018 | News
... R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2018] Read judgment David Buxton’s press ... was brought by Mr David Buxton, who was deaf. The two key issues heard were related to the public sector equality duty and indirect discrimination, in particular the ...
Prescription Charges Coalition meets with Lord Prior
30 May 2016 | News
... charge medical exemption list. Read more about the meeting Raise this issue online with your MP Disability Rights ... Health, Parkinson’s, Motor Neurone Disease, HIV and AIDS, Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, and Heart Disease. The Prescription ...
CPAG takes legal action against DWP for disabled claimants arrears
23 April 2018 | News
Child Poverty Action Group is legally challenging the DWP’s decision to limit backdated payments for ... when they were moved from Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowance. Read more CPAG argues that the ... full. For further information on welfare rights, education issues and social care you will find our factsheets/guides ...
Why the £20 week UC uplift must be kept and extended to legacy benefits: new JRF briefing
03 December 2020 | News
A new briefing from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) details the financial impact of Covid-19 on disabled people and their carers. In turn, it makes the case as to why to ... is disabled or a carer are more likely to be in poverty. Nearly half of all individuals in poverty live in a household ...
I Can Make It travels five hundred miles and will go five hundred more to make new friends
02 February 2017 | News
Unfortunately, we can’t link this update to any unofficial YouTube videos of a ... that we’ve had, as our staff have been in action, in tandem with our Champions, in South West and Northern England. On Monday, Leo Capella and Anna Denham ...
New payment to be introduced in Scotland to protect those challenging disability benefit decisions
01 November 2020 | News
Claimants challenging disability benefit decisions will be able to claim a new Short Term Assistance payment under Scotland’s new social security system The Scotland Act 2016 gave the Scottish Government new powers ...