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BIHR publishes UN Universal Periodic Review report
22 September 2016 | News
Joint Civil Society Report to the United Nations Universal ... Check UK project. It follows eight consultation events and a call for evidence across Great Britain, engaging over ... UK government, including the devolved jurisdictions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is doing at promoting, ...
Disabled people's poverty worse than govt estimates
17 September 2018 | News
... that people with a disability are much more likely to be living in poverty than previously thought. This Social Metrics ... the UK. The report looks at how much people have to spend and the unavoidable costs that affect this. These costs ... a disability are much more likely to be living in poverty. Nearly half of the 14.2 million people in poverty live in ...
DWP announces regional workshop events
08 February 2020 | News
The DWP is holding three new regional workshop events “to hear directly ... from disabled people, disabled people’s organisations and charities” on social security reform. The Department ... it wants “to hear directly from people with disabilities and health conditions who have had direct experience of the ...
Evidence Based Review of WCA
11 December 2013 | News
... of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is a study to examine the performance of the instrument used to assess entitlement to Employment and Support Allowance and an alternative version of the assessment that was ...
MEPS pass EU copyright law
26 March 2019 | News
... which promises to penalise platforms such as Facebook and YouTube whilst also protecting freedom of expression for smaller platforms. European ... the rest of the EU Parliament. Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox and Placido Domingo were among 1,300 musicians who wanted ...
Peers ask Health Secretary to restore Care Act rights
21 September 2020 | News
Baroness Jane Campbell and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson have led a group of 30 peers in writing to Health Secretary Matt Hancock calling for the ... a cross-party group of peers with an interest in the rights and wellbeing of disabled people to urge you to switch off ...
Government announces limited local employment support funding
24 August 2022 | News
... Department of Work & Pensions has announced new grant funding covering 24 local authority areas in England and Wales for local supported employment (LSE) schemes – ...
Police say disability hate crime up 5 percent
16 December 2013 | News
An overview of hate crime in England and Wales This is an Official Statistics bulletin produced ...
We support National Hate Crime Awareness Week
09 October 2016 | News
Letter of solidarity and support from our CEO Liz Sayce See original post In a recent BBC broadcast I said ‘disability ... hate crime is, often, still something which goes unreported and unnoticed. This can be because disabled people don’t ...
Lords says Govt failing duty of care to disabled people
23 March 2016 | News
... House of Lords Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and Disability investigating the Act's impact on disabled people has ... Disability Discrimination Act was born, giving new rights and new hope to disabled people. “Many of those rights ...