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Stop Benefit Deaths campaign launched
28 June 2020 | News
Eighteen leading charities and mental health organisations, including Disability Rights UK, Mind, Liberty and the Trussell Trust are backing a campaign by Rethink ...
Habinteg accessible housing standards event
18 June 2013 | News
Habinteg to host housing standards forum on the future of ... exploring Government changes to housing’s accessibility standards. With the Government’s review of technical housing ...
Committee calls for Energy Support Packages to be better targeted
26 July 2022 | News
A new report by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee has called ... its energy support packages to help the most vulnerable and low-income households. As households struggle to pay ...
Don't withdraw Care Act from Coronavirus Bill, urge disability charities
22 March 2020 | News
... withdraw Care Act rights from disabled people as proposed in the Emergency Coronavirus Bill being discussed in ... enables local authorities to suspend rights to assessment and support under the Care Act. Given that it is only people ... with the highest needs that receive local authority care and support, it can’t be right to leave this group of ...
London Health Commission care delivery enquiry
05 February 2014 | News
The London Health Commission is asking patients and the public, other stakeholders and interested parties from London and beyond to inform the ...
Court of Appeal dismisses challenge to rules excluding disabled students from universal credit
16 December 2022 | News
... to the rejection of a claim for judicial review by Flinn Kays following the refusal of his application for ... 2020. He receives the enhanced rate of both the mobility and daily living components of personal independence payment ... UC. But in line with UC rules, his claim for UC was refused and he was not invited to attend a work capability ...
Upcoming DR UK webinar: Vision Impairment - The journey to adulthood
10 January 2021 | News
This webinar from Disability Rights UK in partnership with the ... Thomas Pocklington Trust will be of interest to careers and enterprise advisers, education professionals and others working with disabled young people. The session ...
New EHRC report says prospects for disabled people have worsened
24 October 2018 | News
Is Britain Fairer? 2018 report: published by the Equality and Human ... As the last review before the UK leaves the EU, and with nearly a decade of data to reflect on, this assessment ...
RDG publishes report on future of accessible rail travel
29 June 2017 | News
The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) brings together train operators and Network Rail to improve the Britain’s railways. A ... The Future of Accessible Rail Travel , commissioned by RDG and written in 2015, highlighted the specific challenges ...
Over 70,000 ESA claimants sanctioned to date
10 November 2015 | News
... show that over 70,000 ESA claimants have been sanctioned since the system was introduced in December 2012. However, ... was 70,452 with - 11,238 applied for failure to attend a mandatory interview; and 59,219 applied for failure to participate in work ...