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New Scottish sensory impairment strategy
24 April 2014 | News
The Scottish Government has invested £2 million to implement a new strategy for sensory ... for improving services for sensory impaired people in Scotland. It was put together following close consultation with a ... include promoting increased awareness of sensory problems in training programmes, to make sure people do not ...
Government issues ‘phase two’ Coronavirus guidance
10 May 2020 | News
The Government has issued new guidance on how it is responding to Coronavirus, including social and economic easements. An easy to read FAQ can be found ... for caring for their residents during the pandemic. Any issues in accessing this support will be escalated to ...
Social Security System "sanctions and demonises Disabled People" - DR UK responds to Employment Inquiry
08 April 2024 | News
Disability Rights UK has responded to the Work and Pensions Select Committee's Disability Employment Inquiry . You can read our full version below, and watch our oral evidence session on the 17th April at ...
Hate crime guidance by Disability Rights UK, with the Office for Disability Issues, for disabled people on how to report hate crime or harassment
23 February 2012 | News
... Rights UK ( 1 ) has launched a new guide on reporting hate crime experienced by disabled people. Maria Miller ... was developed by Disability Rights UK in alliance with ODI and the launch was attended by senior stakeholders from the ... Rights UK in association with the Office of Disability Issues (ODI) has produced 3 guides. Let’s Stop Disability ...
DWP launches WCA changes consultation aimed at reducing the number of claimants in ‘limited capability for work-related activity’ group
06 September 2023 | News
... (WCA) reform so that Disabled people assessed as having a limited capability for work are, in their words, not ... to work. The WCA is used in universal credit (UC) and employment support allowance (ESA) to determine what ... include excluding consideration of someone’s mobility problems altogether, and also removing the assessment ...
Incapacity and disability benefit claimants feel particularly hard hit during coronavirus outbreak, MPs find
26 April 2020 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee of MPs has published the results of a survey to find out people’s experiences of the benefit system during ... face to face assessments for disability benefits has caused problems for people whose assessments have been cancelled ...
Dudley CIL peer support group for individual employers and personal assistants
17 January 2019 | News
On 19 September, last year, Dudley CIL held an event for Individual employers of personal assistants (PAs). The ... of this event was to find out what was working or not, and what ideas attendees came up with to make the lives of ... health budget or their own money to provide personal care and support in their own homes were. The first idea that ...
Our submission to the Work and Welfare Reform Bill scrutiny committee
22 October 2015 | News
Disability Rights UK submission to the Work and Welfare Reform Bill scrutiny committee in respect of the ... between October 2013 and September 2014 had mental health problems. Similarly, more than 60% of the ESA claimants ... in a 1998 report, Disability benefits: A review of the issues and options for reform set out why benefits had been ...
One in fourteen people now on long-term sick
17 May 2023 | News
Over two and a half million people are unemployed due to being long-term sick or Disabled, according to the latest data ... impairments/post-viral fatigue are being highlighted as key issues in the rise – a record high. For every thirteen ...
DWP “hounded disabled woman for years” before her “starvation” death, papers show
22 September 2022 | News
A disabled woman whose body was found in her flat months after all her benefits had been removed ... “had been hounded for years” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and repeatedly failed by other public ... her family alerted her mental health team to the financial problems caused by the DWP cutting off her benefits, they ...