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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 budget reductions of 19 per cent this year In 2014/15, nearly 500 bus services were cut, altered or withdrawn, ...
Disability Rights UK responds to Disability Action Plan
06 February 2024 | News
Yesterday evening, the government published their Disability Action Plan ... “the immediate actions the government would take in 2023 and 2024 to improve disabled people’s lives” – rather ... However, despite this looming deadline, government policy and inaction has long made clear that the lives of Disabled ...
DR UK speak at Leaving No One Behind event
01 November 2017 | News
Achieving and supporting disability inclusion and rights. Date: Saturday 18th ...
Govt ignores disabled people over PIP
22 October 2013 | News
Despite 1142 responses, from organisations and individuals, to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) ... sham consultation on Personal Independence Payment and mobility When Government suddenly did a 6 week ...
Supermarket responses to DRUK letter
15 April 2020 | News
Supermarket responses to our questions on what they are doing to support disabled people Our CEO Kamran Mallick wrote ... what they are doing to support disabled people access food and other household items. He asked them to answer the ... want to shop in-store, but who find the length of the shop and standing in long queues difficult? What new measures are ...
“It was really special” say Graduates of First UK Programme for Disabled Entrepreneurs
07 April 2025 | News
... year saw charity Hatch Enterprise launch a programme supporting Disabled and neurodivergent people to start their own businesses, the ... Disabled entrepreneurs want to see implemented nationally, and how the Hatch programme has impacted their ...
DPO consortium calls for BBC not to push the Red Button service
19 January 2020 | News
A consortium of Disabled Persons Organisations (DPOs) including The National Federation of the Blind UK (NFBUK) and Disability Rights UK is calling on the BBC to keep its ... but for visually impaired, D/deaf, disabled, older people and other hard to reach social groups, many of whom do not ...
Get Yourself Active launch press release
30 June 2015 | News
Get Yourself Active – launch of new sport and activity programme for disabled people A new project to support disabled people to get more involved in physical activity and sport will formally launch on 30 June. Get Yourself ...
Budget 2021: “Outrageous” that over 1.9 million disabled people on legacy benefits refused £20 week financial lifeline
08 March 2021 | News
In last week’s Budget 2021, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak ... six months, well beyond the end of this national lockdown [and] we’ll provide working tax credit claimants with ... lifeline those on Universal Credit have been getting for nearly a year. How the Chancellor can stand up and say the ...