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Join us for exclusive member Updates
13 August 2013 | News
... newsletter that is now accompanied our Disability Rights Handbook Updater Our bi-monthly Updates newsletter always contains: the latest benefits, campaigns and policy updates; Q&As from our Independent Living, ...
Snowdon Trust sponsors our Disabled Students Helpline
30 October 2016 | News
... Rights UK is delighted to announce our Student Helpline is being sponsored by the Snowdon Trust. The Snowdon Trust is a charity that assists physically and sensory disabled people to access vocational and ... to fulfil their full potential and campaign on similar issues to remove the barriers to equality that still exist ...
Liz Sayce joins Social Security Advisory Committee
27 July 2016 | News
... Committee (SSAC) announces membership changes. The Minister for Welfare Reform, Lord Freud, has confirmed 5 new ... people’s experiences of the social security system and I intend to draw on that experience to advise government ... regulations and the operation of the system, and these issues have a massive impact on disabled people’s lives’ ...
PIP stats show broken system
04 June 2014 | News
The Personal Independence Payment statistics issued today show that the ... current situation is causing financial hardship, despair and frustration to nearly 300,000 disabled people. Disability Rights UK demands ...
Disability Rights UK’s Position on Assisted Dying
12 November 2024 | News
... live well. This is not the case at present. Disabled people and those with health conditions find ourselves battling to get NHS treatments, receiving inadequate care and support and having limited access to palliative care. ...
Our response to the JCHR on the rights implications of Brexit
10 October 2016 | News
The Joint Committee on Human Rights launched an inquiry into the ... 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights - Privacy and family life, which protects EU nationals living in the ... For example, if current residence rights are not respected, issues could arise where EU nationals are married to British ...
“Misleading”, “rushed”, and “unfair” consultation on work capability assessment reforms declared unlawful – an important victory for Disabled people
16 January 2025 | News
Ellen Clifford, the disability activist and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) member, has won her judicial case against ... the High Court’ ruling, we call on the Government to clearly state it does intend to pursue the last ...
Care Quality Commission Mental Health Dormitory Survey
24 October 2017 | News
CQC's State of Care in Mental Health Services Report 2014/2017 found that a ... is unsupportive of people’s privacy or dignity and can make protecting these particularly challenging for staff and patients. CQC are running a survey to gain insight ...
Public Accounts Committee PIP transcript
24 March 2014 | News
... Committee held an evidence session for the Committee’s inquiry into PIP on Thursday 20 March. The session explored the issues raised in the National Audit Office report into ...
Transport committee report:our response
17 September 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK welcomes this report from MPs warning that access to public transport is still unacceptably ... poor. In their report MPs highlight many of the issues facing disabled people that are reported to us on a daily basis and are the subject of discussion at our events. We are ...