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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 ...
APPG report of its July meeting
26 July 2018 | News
... Parliamentary Group for Disability held its AGM combined with a meeting on the representation of disabled people ... Thangam Debbonaire MP, Stephen Lloyd MP, Jim Shannon MP and several others. We look forward to the contributions ... and dedicated work that DRUK perform daily to bring the issues faced by disabled people to the public attention. An ...
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 ...
DR UK oppose Illegal Migration Bill
16 May 2023 | News
Disability Rights UK have joined 175 civil society organisations calling on the ... rights, migrant, refugee, asylum, anti-slavery and trafficking, children’s, violence against women and girls, LGBTQI+, disability rights, health, housing, ...
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 ...
DWP makes few concessions on improving engagement with Disabled people
24 July 2022 | News
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued its response to the Social ... January 2021 report that made a series of wide-ranging recommendations on how the DWP could improve its ... engagement with Disabled people. The SSAC’s wide-ranging and detailed report focused on how the DWP involves Disabled ...