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New EFDS research project
16 August 2015 | News
Share your views on news articles featuring active disabled people The English Federation of ... (now known as Activity Alliance) supported by Sport England, is embarking on a new multi-stage research project. The ... to improve public perceptions of disabled people in sport and activity by supporting the media, and those who interact ...
People with learning disabilities to be prioritised for vaccinations
23 February 2021 | News
The Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations has ... with local authorities to identify adults in residential and nursing care, and those who require support, for example ...
Council agrees to scrap home care charges
08 December 2014 | News
Following a several years long local campiagn, home care charges for disabled people and older people are due to be abolished by Hammersmith and Fulham council. The council announced its intention to ...
Care Quality Commission State of Care report 2016-17
09 October 2017 | News
The State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England 2016/2017 Go to report This year’s report shows that ...
DRUK makes 25 recommendations for halving the disability employment gap consultation
21 February 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK submission to the Department of Work and Pensions the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper “Improving Lives” This green paper sets out the government’s ...
Our priorities for the new government
11 June 2017 | News
Now that the hype of the General Election is over and the Conservatives have been returned with a working majority, we outline what we want to see from the new ... Health Act should be co-produced with disabled people and people with long-term health conditions Concrete plans ...
DPAC demo supports High Court ESA claimants
23 November 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK joined a number of other DPOs and disability charities at the ... to Disabled claimants on legacy benefits during the pandemic. William Ford, a solicitor with Osbornes Law, who is ...
Baroness Campbell calls for human rights-busting Coronavirus powers to be switched off
28 September 2020 | News
In a debate in the House of Lords yesterday, she said: “My ... Act be switched-off now, not extended further. I and 30 other Members across the House wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the other place, to make this request, ...
Government fails to restore disabled people’s rights
30 September 2020 | News
The government has refused to remove provisions in the Coronavirus Act which allow local authorities to reduce Care Act rights for disabled people and allow the Secretary of State to reduce the rights of ... disabled children to education support. Over 100 disability and human rights organisations and over 500 disabled ...
Liberty bedroom tax human rights legal challenge
30 April 2014 | News
... Liberty announced that it has been granted permission to bring a Judicial Review of the Government’s controversial ... the relevant regulations on the grounds they are irrational and a violation of Articles 8 and/or 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the ...