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Sign up for the free School for Change Agents
24 January 2017 | News
... School for Change Agents is a free, five-week virtual learning course for anyone who would like to make a difference in ... 16 th February at 3.30pm (GMT) with a live webinar, and at the same day and time for the following four weeks. If you’re not ...
Meet Kush Kanodia MBA: our new Ambassador
07 July 2019 | News
... is a message from Kush: I am greatly honoured to be appointed an Ambassador for Disability Rights UK (DR UK). My ... I graduated from RADAR's Leadership Development Programme and voted for the merger in 2011, which formed DR UK. I was ... leaders. The programme has successfully helped to enable and empower one of DR UK’s disabled graduates to become an ...
ENIL Press Release – Human Rights Recommendations to the EU from the CRPD Committee
10 September 2015 | News
... that the European Union develop an approach to guide and foster deinstitutionalization” The European Union (EU) has been ... Geneva to follow the constructive dialogue between the UN and the EU. “ENIL has been ringing the alarm bell for many ...
Peers letter to Health Minister on Care Act Easements
08 September 2020 | News
... Hon Matt Hancock MP Secretary of State Department of Health and Social Care 39 Victoria Street London SW1H 0EU 9 September 2020 Dear Secretary of State, We are writing to you today as a cross-party group of peers with an interest in the rights and wellbeing of disabled people to urge you to switch off ...
Joseph Rowntree produce new Solve Poverty strategy
05 September 2016 | News
... Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has published two reports detailing a new strategy to solve poverty in the UK. It has produced a five-point plan that will: Boost incomes and reduce costs Deliver an effective benefit system Improve education standards and raise skills Strengthen families and communities ...
Looking Forward: Shaping the Future of the DPO Capacity Building Project
18 June 2024 | News
Background For the past two years, the DPO Capacity Building Project, delivered by Disability Rights UK (DR UK) and funded by the Legal Education Fund, has been dedicated to developing and empowering the Disabled People's Organisations (DPO) ...
Labour Party: disability benefit reform 2015
21 August 2013 | News
In a speech yesterday, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary ... Liam Byrne set out the Labour Party's disability benefit and wider welfare reform agenda for 2015. In 'Fiscal ...
Suicide rates record high amongst 15-19 year olds
06 October 2022 | News
YoungMinds reported online this week that suicide rates for ... Minds, suicide rates among young people aged 15-19 in England rose by 35 per cent from 2020 to 2021. In 2020, 147 young people aged 15-19 in England took their own lives. This rose to 198 in 2021. This is ...
DR UK responds to ableist Warwickshire Councillor comments
04 March 2024 | News
... Rights UK has sent a letter with SEND Crisis Warwickshire, and 12 other disability and education organisations, to the leader of Warwickshire ... after three councillors made ableist comments regarding children identified as having Special Educational ...
DR UK Ambassador Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson speaks out against cut to ESA
12 January 2016 | News
Cross-bench peer Tanni Grey Thompson has written an article in Today’s Times – on the day disabled people are ... says it wants to see more disabled people in paid work and halve the disability employment gap, an aspiration I ... a year to £3,800, a reduction of 30%. They’ll get nearly £30 a week less than current claimants – for people ...