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Government loses bedroom tax case over treatment of children
26 January 2016 | News
... held that it was ‘very difficult to justify’ treating children worse than adults under the ‘bedroom tax’ ... concerns ‘bedroom tax’ restrictions for social tenants and whether they discriminate unlawfully against disabled children who need overnight care. Paul and Susan Rutherford’s teenage grandson Warren requires ...
Access to Work Covid-19 update in BSL
28 June 2020 | News
The Department for Work and Pensions has updated their Covid-19 guidance in British Sign Language (BSL) video format. You can access these videos via the following link: ...
An I Can Make It Volunteer Champion in Action
05 October 2016 | News
... Mears latest update comes slightly over a year to the day since he began as a volunteer for this campaign with ... a disability or long term health condition, are aged 18-29 and are interested in joining Jonathan Mears as part of I Can Make ...
Decisions made on only 1 in 5 PIP claims
10 February 2014 | News
... show that only 34,200 of the 220,300 disabled people making a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim have received a decision. ... new data covers the period from 8 April 2013, when PIP was introduced, up to 31 December 2013. While 100% of special ...
Benefit recipients in drug or alcohol treatment
30 July 2015 | News
Working age benefit recipients in drug or alcohol treatment View analysis This analysis ... age benefit recipients in drug or alcohol treatment in England the median duration of claims the proportion of ...
DWP introduces new British Sign Language pilot
17 January 2016 | News
DWP is introducing a new video relay service to help British Sign Language ... The video relay service (VRS) allows users to make BSL interpreted video calls via their tablet, smartphone, computer or laptop. A professional interpreter then relays the call in English to a member of ...
Take part in the Blue badge citizen survey
14 September 2017 | News
... Badge service. Go to survey This survey is aimed at helping the Department to better understand citizens' needs. If any questions are not relevant, feel ... to leave them unanswered. Your answers will be anonymised and will not affect your personal use of the scheme. The ...
Disability Rights UK opposes the UK Supreme Court ruling on ‘biological sex’
17 April 2025 | News
... Rights UK is deeply saddened by the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that declares trans women are not 'biological women'. As ... the court’s exclusion of Trans voices in their decision, and their failure to be led by the lived experience of one ... without the involvement of those most impacted. We stand in solidarity with the Trans community as they ...
Access to Work
07 October 2022 | Resource
Access to Work is a government programme aimed at supporting disabled people to take up or remain in work. ... grants What Access to work cannot cover Students Employers and Access to Work How to apply? Supported Internships and Traineeships Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the ...
I Can Make It welcomes more champions into our fold
23 February 2017 | News
... champions visit us at Disability Rights UK’s offices in London. And on Monday three of our champions did just that at an ... for Leicester, our newest champion for Leeds Clessia Walker and Rahul Tooray a Champion for Birmingham. They were ...