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Disability Charities Consortium manifesto for the National Disability Strategy
02 February 2021 | News
... of the Disability Charities Consortium (DCC), which brings CEOs and policy leads from the UK’s leading influential ... (RNIB), Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID), and Business Disability Forum (BDF). We created a manifesto ...
Attitudes to disabled people since Paralympics
08 July 2014 | News
Nearly 70% of the British public feel attitudes towards disabled people have improved since the London Paralympic Games in 2012, the Government ... claims. The claim is based on analysis of The ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey . This is a national cross-sectional ...
DWP should immediately stop benefit sanctions imposed on disabled people or those with a health condition say MPs
06 November 2018 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee says that there is no evidence that ... “worse, it is harmful and counterproductive.” Read more In its Benefit Sanctions report the Committee highlights ... off benefits when their health or other critical factors clearly make this inappropriate. Disability Rights UK will ...
Care Act: Part 1 Guidance published
22 October 2014 | News
... authorities Today sees the long awaited publication of the final guidelines and regulations underpinning part 1 of the Care Act 2014. ... It marks the culmination of a long process of consultation and argument about social care reform dating back to when ...
Parliamentary Review calls for reverse of £30 week cut to ESA
07 December 2015 | News
Halving The Gap? A review by Lord Low of Dalston CBE, Baroness Meacher and Baroness Grey-Thompson DBE A parliamentary review ... the amount of money that new claimants in the employment and support allowance work related activity group (ESA WRAG) ...
ILF celebrates 27 years of providing support
04 June 2015 | News
... people from the ILF, DWP, local authorities, ILF users, and people committed to independent living gathered to celebrate 27 years of ... but there have been plenty of words said on this already and I don't intend to repeat them here, well not all of them ...
Vince Cable visits disability entrepreneurs
07 July 2014 | News
Dr Vince Cable to examine disability entrepreneurship in visit ... Rights UK The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Dr Vince Cable is to visit University College ... a guest of Disability Rights UK, the national charity for and led by disabled people, on Thursday June 26 th 2014 ...
DR UK says ESA cut will not be offset by other measures
07 March 2016 | News
In the last few weeks the House of Lords twice voted against ... when disabled people so often live in deep poverty; and, as the eloquent speeches from peers and the powerful ... and sickness benefit).' The risk that we are clearly facing is that from 2017, many disabled people will ...
Darlington Association on Disability evaluation
06 May 2015 | News
Darlington Association on Disability: Stronger Voices…Strong ... the lives of disabled people, both who provide peer support and those who are in receipt of peer support. As a Disabled ... is a fundamental pillar to enable independent living and empowers disabled people. The project findings ...
DWP accused of 'rewarding failure' over 'extortionate' benefit assessors payouts
13 April 2017 | News
Private companies carrying out controversial assessments for disability benefits ... to this news item Labour accused the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of "rewarding failure" by Atos and Capita, which appear set to be paid more than £700 ...