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New DRILL research programme
11 February 2015 | News
... Rights UK alongside partners Disability Action Northern Ireland, Inclusion Scotland and Disability Wales have been chosen to carry out a ...
UK violating its human rights obligations finds UN poverty expert
21 May 2019 | News
... UK has violated its human rights obligations through sustained and widespread cuts to social support, says Professor Philip ... In terms of disabled people, the report says that Nearly half of those in poverty, 6.9 million people, are from ...
We demand review of local bus funding
10 March 2014 | News
... Osborne MP, from the Campaign for Better Transport, demanding an urgent review of the funding for local bus services ... important services. Buses are excellent value for money. Nearly 5 billion bus trips are made in Great Britain each ...
Changing the Funding Landscape for Disability Justice: Disability Rights UK’s call to Funding Organisations
03 November 2023 | News
... launch of a DPO sector scheme that will challenge the funding landscape for disability justice. We aim to highlight the ... believe funding should be exclusively directed towards DPOs and Disabled people-led groups to ensure that disability ...
DWP chooses not to appeal past present test case for refugees
12 September 2016 | News
DLA past presence test rules held to unlawfully discriminate against disabled refugees or their family members. In ... for 104 weeks. The DWP has now published DMG Memo 20/16 and ADM Memo 21/16 stating that the decision will not be appealed and confirming it as law. "The past presence test is no ...
Strategic partner updates for August 2013
08 September 2013 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner to the Department of Health, NHS England and Public Health England The Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development (IESD) Fund ...
Transport committee report
08 January 2014 | News
... Session 2013-14: Access to transport for disabled people. In its Fifth Report of Session 2013-14: Access to transport ... to provide better information for the disabled traveller; and to improve attitudes and behaviour towards disabled passengers. Many of its ...
Urgent expansion of work support for disabled people required
06 March 2012 | News
... the Government’s acceptance of all the recommendations in the Sayce review [2] to transform the Access to Work programme [3] and the commitment to ring-fence the £300 million ... programme can double quickly, as the Sayce review proposed; and Ensure the rights of people working in non-viable ...
Ministers say thank you for all responses to the Improving Lives green paper
22 March 2017 | News
Penny Mordaunt MP, Minister for Disabled People, Health & Work and Nicola Blackwood MP, Minister for Public Health and Innovation ‘delighted’ at the high level of ...
Local authorities withdrawing buses
11 January 2015 | News
New research: Half of local authorities withdrawing buses after budgets are slashed by 15 per cent Campaign ... Transport press release Half of local authorities in England and Wales have cut funding for buses in the current ... budget reductions of 19 per cent this year In 2014/15, nearly 500 bus services were cut, altered or withdrawn, ...