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Liz Sayce talks about diversity on International Women's Day 2016
07 March 2016 | News
Liz appears on this YouTube video Link to video Liz Sayce talks about diversity on International Women's Day 2016 ...
Acas publishes new guide to help prevent disability discrimination in the workplace
03 December 2015 | News
... expert, Acas, has launched a new guide to help employers and managers identify, tackle and prevent disability discrimination in the workplace. The new free guide ' Disability ...
Severely Disabled man challenges removal of PIP after 28 days in hospital
18 July 2021 | News
Cameron Mitchell, a severely Disabled man is challenging a rule which halted his PIP payment after he had been in ... aged 19, cannot walk or speak. He suffers frequent seizures and muscle spasms and is fed through a tube. He has spent several periods of ...
Extra DWP funding announced by the Chancellor woefully inadequate says DR UK
03 September 2019 | News
As part of Spending Round 2019, the Chancellor has today announced £36 million extra funding for the DWP and an extra £40 million funding for discretionary housing ... yesterday, new research was published highlighting that nearly half of disabled people hit by the benefits freeze ...
NHS Long Term Plan ignores crisis in social care says DR UK
06 January 2019 | News
... Plan View plan This is a ten-year strategy aimed at tackling the pressures NHS staff face, whilst making any extra ... decade ahead. Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director of Age UK and co-Chair of the Care and Support Alliance, and Mark Lever, Chief Executive of the ...
‘Odds Stacked Against Young Disabled People’ DR UK’s Response to Lord’s Inquiry
31 October 2023 | News
... submitted a response to the, now closed, House of Lords inquiry : “The transition from education to employment for ... below. Areas examined by the inquiry included career and employment support and advice young Disabled people receive throughout this ...
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 ...