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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 ...
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 budget reductions of 19 per cent this year In 2014/15, nearly 500 bus services were cut, altered or withdrawn, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
DR UK speak at Leaving No One Behind event
01 November 2017 | News
Achieving and supporting disability inclusion and rights. Date: Saturday 18th ...
“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 ...