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Share your experiences - take the DBC #IncreaseLegacyBenefits Survey
09 August 2021 | News
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) is asking Disabled claimants to complete a short survey to help in ... experiences In March 2020, the Government increased the standard rate of Universal Credit and working tax credits by £1,000 a year (£20 a week). ...
What's been happening in the world of GOGA?
20 September 2018 | News
I have been privileged to have been working on the GOGA project from April 2017 starting with the Kent project down in Sunny Margate and now working with Disability Rights UK to deliver the ... all the 18 GOGA localities as well as National Partners and other sporting organisations. The conference kicked off ...
Social care for working age adults in parliament
25 February 2013 | News
The All-Party Groups on Disability and Local Government have launched an inquiry into social care for adults of working age (18-65). This is your opportunity to tell MPs and peers about how social care supports your right to ...
Changing Places to receive £30m in 2020 Budget
10 March 2020 | News
A £30 million cash injection will be pledged to develop the network of Changing ... as to whether the funding will be UK-wide or just for England. Changing Places are fully accessible toilet and washing facilities with lots of room, changing benches ...
How can poverty be reduced in the UK?
17 June 2015 | News
A message from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation JRF’s developing anti-poverty strategy for the UK will produce the first evidenced plan to reduce poverty for all age groups and all parts of the UK. To contribute to our thinking we ... redesigning back-to-work support for disabled people, and providing access to low-cost credit and incentives to ...
ENIL events 3rd European Independent Living Day
04 May 2016 | News
Vision of Independent Living Comes Alive on the 3rd European ... More than 30 organisations of disabled people across Europe and many individuals are joining the European Network on ... to raise awareness about the right to Independent Living and its importance for disabled people. To celebrate this ...
Stats show little change in disability employment gap
03 July 2016 | News
... summarises the key statistics available on disabled people in employment in the UK. View report The 2015 Conservative ... employment gap” by transforming “policy, practice and public attitudes, so that hundreds of thousands more disabled people who can and want to be in work ...
Independent review of Northern Ireland PIP assessment process
28 June 2018 | News
... for Communities commissioned Walter Rader to undertake an independent review on how the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment is working in Northern Ireland. To support the review a Call for Evidence was launched in January 2018, and Mr Rader also engaged directly with PIP operational ...
Abolition of Human Rights Act kicked into touch
25 January 2017 | News
Justice Minister Sir Oliver Heald confirms government’s plans to ... committed to reforming our domestic human rights framework, and we will return to our proposals once we know the ... it important for us to sort out the EU side of matters, and the exit from the EU, before we return to that ...
See how Human Rights can increase care support
09 July 2014 | News
... care that Jan received from her council meant she was confined to bed most of the day. Jan used human rights to take ... of life. Equally Ours aims to help everyone to understand how human rights benefit all of us here in the UK, every ... of our shared heritage, helping to make equality, inclusion and social justice real for everyone. Equally Ours brings ...