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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What makes our Leadership Academy Programme so different?
16 January 2018 | News
... of employees with lived experience of disability and/or long term health conditions. This programme has been recognised by The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and aims to not view having a ...