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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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
PPE telephone survey with personal assistant employers
12 July 2020 | News
DR UK is a stakeholder in the PA Framework Group which has been working with the Department of Health and Social Care’s PPE future demand strategy team to help understand individual employer ...
More than 80 people a month are dying after being declared fit for work
26 August 2015 | News
More than 80 people a month are dying after being declared “fit for work” according to ... show that 2,380 people died between December 2011 and February 2014 shortly after a work capability assessment ... requests, also revealed that between December 2011 and February 2014, 50,580 ESA claimants had died within 14 ...
PIP has cost up to £2 billion more than keeping DLA
15 January 2019 | News
Government disability benefit spending has increased by 15% to 20% cent despite the aim of ... £4.2 billion gap in public finances. Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, Frank Field said: “DWP told us PIP would save taxpayers money and introduce a fair, transparent assessment process. ...
Three Months to make a difference
28 July 2020 | News
... written by the Disabled Students’ Commission (DSC), the independent and strategic group established in March this year and funded by the Office for Students (OfS), highlights ...
DWP assessment firms still producing shocking levels of sub-standard reports
26 January 2023 | News
Contractors likely to be bidding for new five-year contracts to test eligibility for ... are still producing a “shockingly high” number of sub-standard assessment reports, nine years after they first won ... are still producing a “shockingly high” number of sub-standard assessment reports, nine years after they first won ...