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Reclaiming Our Futures Week of Action
28 August 2013 | News
From today to 4th September Disabled People against the Cuts (DPAC) and other campaigns are offering a range of activities ... in "to protest against austerity, fight for our rights and celebrate disabled people". Reclaiming our Futures is ...
DR UK responds to the LGA report on adult social care
24 September 2018 | News
... kick-starts the debate on how to pay for adult social care and rescue care services from collapse View LGA paper: The ... said: “We welcome the publication of LGA’s Green Paper and this initiative in stimulating the much needed debate on how to ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 – ...
School refuses reasonable adjustments to secure child’s safety
15 September 2020 | News
A disabled child from Ramsgate whose brain is at physical risk of displacement has been refused ... Equality Act which would keep her safe at school drop off and pick up because of the school’s Coronavirus ... adjustments for disabled people. Francesca’s EHCP clearly states her needs and her vulnerability, but they ...