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DR UK visits London Hackspace
27 November 2014 | News
... UK organised a visit to the London Hackspace. The visitors included members of the No10 policy unit, the Office of Disability Issues and advisors to Government ministers. The visitors were able ...
Two-thirds of NHS Trusts failing to support equal access to care for Disabled patients
24 February 2022 | News
People who are blind, d/Deaf or have a learning disability are increasingly ... their communication needs, new research by Healthwatch England shows. The failure puts services in breach of their duty under the Accessible Information Standard, a legal requirement created by NHS England in ...
Campaigners ask for fire safety plans for all disabled residents unable to self-evacuate
17 June 2021 | News
... marked the fourth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died, half of whom were Disabled People ... self-evacuate, it didn’t matter how high the building was and all disabled residents should be entitled to Personal ... the need for building owners and managing agents to clearly communicate that people had a right to Personal ...
Leonard Cheshire launches campaign for better use of language around disability
27 April 2021 | News
... has launched a new campaign around the use of language relating to Disabled people. A list of appropriate and inappropriate terms for Disabled people suggests saying ... talking to people with disabilities is rife in the UK… Nearly three quarters of disabled people - of which there are ...
ODI looking for new people for Regional Stakeholder Network
08 April 2019 | News
The Office for Disability Issues is seeking people to join the new Regional Stakeholder Network in 9 regional groups across England. Find out more Following requests from disabled ...
Labour cumulative assessment motion fails
10 July 2013 | News
Yesterday's motion demanding a cumulative impact assessment of the effect of ... clean on the effects of their policies on disabled people and those who provide care and yesterday debated the ...
Keep the £20 per week UC uplift for another year “at the very least” says Work and Pensions Committee
08 February 2021 | News
A new report from the Work and Pensions Committee of MPs notes that since March 2020 the number of people claiming UC has doubled ... six million, while job vacancies remain far below pre-pandemic levels. Given this, the MPs warn that removing the ...
Joint open letter from over 50 charities urges Chancellor to keep and expand the £20 week Universal Credit lifeline
29 September 2020 | News
... Chancellor to urge him to make the temporary £20 per week increase to the standard allowance of Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit permanent from April 2020, as well as ...
Life after Lockdown project launched: share your ideas on what social security and private sector housing should look like
19 July 2020 | News
The campaigning anti-poverty charity Z2K has today launched a new ... together to talk about their experiences of the housing and social security systems, and about what they want life after lockdown to look like. ...
DWP to appeal Fife bedroom tax decisions
23 September 2013 | News
The DWP has issued an urgent bulletin - HB U6/2013 – announcing its intention to appeal two ... cases resulted in findings that rooms designated by the landlord as bedrooms were not capable of being such for the ... determined that the rooms did not satisfy the “space standard” as set out in section 326 of the Housing Act 1985 ...