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Disabled people’s voices support Lords in defeating Government over ESA benefit cut
27 January 2016 | News
Lords vote against the abolition of the work-related activity group component of Employment and Support Allowance for new claimants. Yesterday, Lord Low ... a week ago and at the last count had already attracted nearly 100,000 [now more] signatures. Some 36 disability ...
GOGA at Canterbury Christchurch University on International Day of Persons with Disabilities
02 December 2018 | News
... Support Lead at Disability Rights UK was asked to provide information about GOGA and DR UK’s other services to students on the 3rd December ... Disabilities was “Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”. To celebrate the ...
Grenfell Inquiry hears of ‘years of buck passing’ leading up to fire
11 May 2021 | News
... Tenants Management Organisation (TMO) to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry continues to highlight a catalogue of errors and buck passing in the years and months leading to the fire ... Fazilet Hadi said: "Despite the Fire Safety Order 2005 clearly saying that there must be regular fire risk ...
Complaints about PIP assessments up 6,000 per cent in three years
06 May 2019 | News
Government figures show 9,320 complaints were received about medical assessments for PIP in the ... year to February 2019 – compared with 1,391 in 2016/17 and just 142 in 2015/16, www.independent.co.uk reports. The ... prompting fresh concerns that the system is “flawed” and harming disabled people. This marks a surge of 570 per ...
I Can Make It attends West Midlands Heads of Procurement meeting in Birmingham
14 July 2016 | News
On the 14 July Leo Capella and Philip Connolly attended the Quarterly West Midlands Heads of Procurement (WMHoP) meeting for July with one of our Birmingham based champions ...
MPs say thousands of ESA claimants failed by DWP 'culture of indifference'
17 July 2018 | News
The Public Accounts Committee report finds Employment and Support Allowance underpayments were entirely avoidable and that swift action is needed to address harm caused. Read ...
Government accused of breaching UN convention in its treatment of disabled people
20 August 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK accuses the Government of “dismissing” the findings and recommendations of the UN disability committee’s ... it as a “dismissal of the lived experiences, views and interests of Disabled people in the UK”. Read ...
Research Opportunity: Help Us Understand Menstrual Health In Teenagers With Down Syndrome
19 November 2024 | News
Researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine are conducting a study on how teenagers with Down syndrome and their families prepare for and manage their periods . Periods can be a confusing and ...
Our view on Govt plans to see more disabled people in work
29 November 2017 | News
Improving Lives: the Future of Work, Health and Disability. Read ... the idea of personalised employment support for example, and the recommendations of the Stevenson/Farmer review being ...
Our PIP Guide has been updated to include PIP psychological distress judgement
30 January 2018 | News
Our PIP Guide has now been updated to include changes to regulations following the High Court decision RF v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions . From 16 March 2017, new PIP rules ... rate, for claimants who suffered psychological distress and needed someone with them when when trvelling on familiar ...