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Autumn 2024 Budget Summary: Key Policy Announcements relevant to Disabled people
31 October 2024 | News
... Disabled people – Thanks to Megan Thomas of the UK Deaf and Disabled People's Coalition (UKDDPC) for compiling this Budget 24 summary. Summary: Keeping WCA reforms, no ... from legacy benefits to Universal Credit. There are lots of issues people are experiencing with migration which this ...
Covid-19 Inquiry Manager
12 March 2024 | Opportunity
... Rights UK (DR UK) is excited to recruit a Covid-19 Inquiry Manager. The purpose of the role is to ensure the representation of views and experiences of Disabled people during the Covid-19 Public Inquiry, through communication and exchange of information with Disabled People's ...
New industrial disease consultation
21 May 2013 | News
... Dupuytren’s disease - Call for evidence The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) is undertaking a review of Dupuytren’s disease and hand-transmitted vibration exposure. IIAC would welcome ...
CQC report on inequalities
19 October 2020 | News
The CQC has published a new report highlighting health and social care inequalities during the pandemic. Read the report here: ...
As high proportion of disabled people forced to use food banks we demand Govt sees it, says it and sorts it
29 June 2017 | News
... bank use highlights that three-quarters of households using food banks contained someone with a health condition and/or disability. View report: Financial insecurity, food insecurity, and disability This Trussell Trust research is the single ...
Debt charities urge Ofgem to protect people with energy debt
08 August 2022 | News
... regulator Ofgem to urgently improve protections for people in arrears after publishing a briefing highlighting the ... many face. Citizens Advice , the Money Advice Trust and StepChange Debt Charity are warning that with a further ... Group met with Ofgem in late July and raised a number of issues on which it needed to take action including improving ...
New guidance on joining the judiciary as a non-legal member
06 June 2021 | News
Your specialist knowledge of living with a disability could have benefits to the delivery of justice within England and Wales. You might be able to use your expertise by ... to help other tribunal members understand more about the issues they are being presented with, and reach the right ...
DR UKs new training contract
25 January 2015 | News
Disability Rights UK provides training to improve accessibility of assessments Disability ... has no validity (there is no link between the points system and whether someone can or cannot work) – and the way it ... over a million disabled people accessed our information on issues from PIP to Access to Work. See also Why ...
Tribute to Lorraine Gradwell
03 September 2017 | News
Lorraine Gradwell, founder of Breakthrough UK and former ... I had the opportunity to ask the Office for Disability Issues to invite Lorraine to be part of the project group ...
Government Fails to Implement Emergency Evacuation Plans
03 December 2024 | News
In September 2024, on publication of the final Grenfell Tower Report, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner strongly committed to implementing the ... issued a statement alongside a coalition of organisations and specialists, stating that "the way that the rights and ...