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Requests for salary info is discrimination – Fawcett Society
23 November 2021 | News
Employers must stop asking job applicants for salary history as it discriminates ... against women, people from non-white British backgrounds, and Disabled people, and entrenches the gender pay gap, according to new work by ...
Almost 2 million pushed into poverty by benefit reform
21 April 2014 | News
Some 1.75 million households in Great Britain have seen their incomes cut in the last ... of benefit reforms, according to a new report by Oxfam and the New Policy Institute reveals. The report, Multiple ... meet. As a result, disabled people, carers, job seekers and single parents are being pushed deeper into poverty. In ...
Sue Bott awarded CBE in New Years Honours
01 January 2014 | News
Disability Rights UK's Director of Policy and Development awarded CBE for services to people with disabilities and their families We are delighted that Sue has been recognised for her tireless work in campaigning for the rights of disabled people and their ...
Work programme only helps 1 in 30 ESA claimants
01 December 2013 | News
The last Work programme information shows how many employment support allowance (ESA) claimants found work between 1 June 2011 and 30 June 2013. Of the 186,530 put on the work programme ... failing disabled people (with at least an 88% failure rate) and is very poor value for money. Work programme only helps ...
No indication of bedroom tax evictions says Minister
13 May 2013 | News
No indications that evictions will result from the bedroom tax ... Mr Tom Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he plans to allocate additional funding ... on the use of discretionary housing payments funding and evictions. Initial findings will be available in 2014 ...
CEV list called into question over new guidance
26 January 2022 | News
... people were told to shield unnecessarily under the original English guidelines, while many more who were truly at ... to his estimates, 1.5 million people need to have shielded, and a further 1.5 million at risk were not warned or placed ... who are not at risk need that reassurance. “Between 1.5 and 1.8 million were unnecessarily shielding, around the ...
Self-employed? Disabled? We want to interview you
02 June 2016 | News
We are looking for someone who has chosen self-employment as a means of ... in capturing the difficulties you encountered in employment and how these have been managed better in self-employment. ... Is this you? Are you willing to be interviewed and filmed about your experiences? Contact ...
Call for experiences of Patient Transport in London
01 August 2018 | News
Transport for All is looking for evidence from Disabled and older Londoners who use ... the eligibility criteria. They are looking for Disabled and older people who have booked, or tried to book, patient ...
Disabled people fear budget announcements threaten independent living
15 March 2016 | News
In today’s Guardian disabled people say how today’s ... for many who fear heavy impact from tighter assessments and benefit cuts. Read article In the article Liz Sayce, ... society. But with the cuts to benefits, social care cuts and now the tighter regulation to PIP, we are really ...
Bridge to Work programme evaluation – Invitation to Tender
16 June 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK is the learning partner for the Bridge to Work programme funded by City ... commission an experienced evaluation consultant to design and implement an evaluation framework that will evaluate the ... into the development of the final evaluation framework and the resulting outputs. The successful candidate(s) would ...