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Ticket Office Closures Scrapped!
31 October 2023 | News
In a massive result for common sense Huw Merriman Minister ... announced toady that the rail watch dogs of Transport Focus and Travel Watch London could not approve the plans for ... have announced that they will not be pushing it forward, and will abide by the watchdogs decision as the over 700000 ...
Disability strategy ruled unlawful, DWP denied permission to appeal
09 February 2022 | News
The government has been denied permission to appeal against a court ruling that the entire disability strategy is ... mean that the government needs to discard the strategy and start again. Mr Justice Griffiths, who heard the case, has denied work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey permission to appeal. ...
Disability Rights UK is very pleased to welcome Wey Education as a member organisation
21 December 2017 | News
InterHigh offers a complete secondary education online. ... fee paying secondary school, established in 2005 and a pioneer in online education, and a B2B division serving other educational companies and ...
Permission granted for challenge to National Disability Strategy consultation process
27 July 2021 | News
Four Disabled people have been permitted by the Court to bring forward a judicial review challenge of the consultation ... in breach of their public law duties during the process and that the case was “important in the public ... such a way as to preclude proper and effective response. Nearly all the questions in the survey were multiple-choice. ...
Office for Rail & Road Release New Travel Guidance
28 July 2019 | News
Aims to Increase Confidence of Disabled Passengers The Office for ... (ORR) has recently published updated guidance for train and station operators. The guidance has the aim of ... in conjunction with advice to the Williams Rail Review is clearly aimed at improving the experience of assisted travel ...
Council Tax Support means work does not pay
10 March 2014 | News
... its 48th Report on Council Tax support.Accounts, today and said: "When the Government transferred responsibility ... for Council Tax support to 326 local authorities in April 2013 it intended that the reform supported the work ... lose more of their earnings – as a result of Income Tax and National Insurance contributions combined with the ...
Fears over right to protest under PCSC Bill
18 March 2021 | News
Fears have been raised about the impacts of sweeping changes to rights to protest in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill, which had its second reading in ... finally being made accessible, as Disabled campaigners handcuffed themselves to inaccessible trains and buses in the ...
An open letter from our CEO: 100,000 deaths from Coronavirus. Two thirds of deaths are Disabled people’s.
26 January 2021 | News
This week marks the sobering milestone that the UK has lost 100,000 lives to ... home residents. 30% of these people died in care homes, and a further 10% were taken to hospital where they died. We ... learning disabilities. These people were Disabled people, and they need not have died. According to data from the ...
Disability costs must be covered before applying £30 ESA cut say MPs
02 February 2017 | News
Government must establish additional financial support for disabled people before introducing lower benefit rate, says Work and Pensions committee. View report In a cross-party report published today, Friday 3 February 2017, the Work and Pensions Committee says that, if the Department is to ...
People who are currently shielding can no longer get SSP on that basis from 1 August 2020
30 June 2020 | News
The Minister for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson has announced ... possible, those shielding may wish to go out to more places and see more people, as long as they take particular care to minimise contact with others outside their household and follow hygiene measures. This means that if they are ...