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We respond to Govt disability employment strategy
16 December 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK urges Government to invest in the employment support disabled people want and need. The Government has issued its disability ... this right is vital to large numbers of disabled people and our families. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) welcomes in ...
Government to trial offer of additional Work Coach support for claimants awaiting their work capability assessment
07 June 2022 | News
Minister for Disabled People Chloe Smith has given a preview ... options for addressing some “short-to-medium-term issues in health and disability benefits”. The Green Paper also aimed to ...
About our 'In the Making' project
12 August 2014 | News
A successful bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council is set to make disabled people pioneers in a new industrial revolution Researchers and disability rights campaigners have collaborated to ...
Report on our Leadership Academy graduation event
10 May 2018 | News
... for employees with lived experience of health conditions and disability. View video On 10 May 2018, we held the ... Through presentations the delegates highlighted key findings, from their reports, which gave attendees a chance to see first-hand key issues faced by disabled employees in the work place. Thus, ...
Actions paused in Government’s Disability Strategy
06 September 2022 | News
In January 2022, the High Court declared that the National ... to be "consultation". The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has sought permission to appeal the High Court's decision, and the Court of Appeal's ruling on whether permission to ...
Independent Living Fund: post-closure review
19 January 2017 | News
... assessment of the experiences of the closure of the Independent Living Fund in England. View report Summary of findings The Independent Living ... high support needs. It was permanently closed in June 2015 and the responsibility for supporting ILF recipients in ...
Covid causing huge rise in Disability
06 April 2021 | News
At least 122,000 NHS staff have Long Covid according to new Office for National Statistics data that also ... Covid, raising fears of stretched Special Educational Needs and Disability support. And the ONS has found that around 30,000 social care workers ...
Claimants with severe disability premium prevented from claiming universal credit
31 January 2019 | News
From 16 January 2019 new regulations prevent those receiving the severe disability premium (SDP) in a working age ... - an award of income support, income-related employment and support allowance, income-based jobseeker's allowance or ... continue to claim the above existing ‘legacy benefits’ and tax credits. This means that they will only move to ...
Disabled peoples stories of leaving institutions
11 June 2013 | News
Disabled People in the UK share their stories of leaving institutions Press ... from people with learning disabilities. Devised and researched by Disabled People’s user-led organisation CHANGE, the report has been supported and funded by Lumos, the charity founded by JK Rowling to ...
19 disabled people murdered in Japan
25 July 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK is shocked and alarmed at the news that 19 disabled people have been killed at a residential care centre in the Japanese city of Sagamihara. It appears that the ... says: “Hate Crime is an abhorrence Disability Rights UK and the Disability Hate Crime Network are continually ...