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Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill will take our rights backwards
04 September 2018 | News
... committee stage of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill begins in the House of Lords. View progress of the Bill Mental ... affect the fundamental human rights of hundreds of thousands of people with conditions such as dementia, learning disability and brain injury. Commenting on the Bill Sue Bott CBE, ...
Our response to the spending review
27 June 2013 | News
... Rights UK want to see social support that puts power in the hands of disabled people and enables us to fulfil our human right to participate in ...
DR UK joins Accessible Voting Day signatories
02 March 2022 | News
Barack Obama declared that "there is no such thing as a vote that does not matter". Yet many people are ... weren't accessible for people with a learning disability and 61% of people reported that polling station staff did ... not always make legally entitled reasonable adjustments. And, RNIB have serious concerns that the Elections Bill will ...
Future of the Disability Committee Decided
13 March 2014 | News
Following the independent review of the Disability Committee carried out by Agnes Fletcher in April 2013, and further discussions with Ministers and stakeholders, it has been decided that the Committee ...
Government halves funding for Social Care workforce
04 April 2023 | News
... decision to cut its promised Social Care workforce funding from £500m to £250m has been widely criticised. On the 4th of April, the Department of Health and Social Care announced a new "package of measures" and the allocation of previously promised funding to improve ...
Visiting 'Welcome Points' for Disabled Passengers
06 May 2025 | News
... of the new Rail Delivery Group project ‘Welcome Points’ at Blackpool North Rail station. Stephen said ‘I ... part of a team of potential users to assist in the design and configuration of Welcome Points and to see our thoughts put into a full operational system ...
Disabled students to lose entitlement to Universal Credit from this week
14 December 2021 | News
... has written to the Secretary of State Therese Coffey , urging the removal of new regulations barring Higher Education ... only a short interval between finishing Secondary Education and starting a degree, effectively Disabled young people ... (which can often take around nine months to secure) and will therefore be barred from claiming UC during their ...
Audio Recording of WCA assessments
05 June 2013 | News
The DWP has produced a FAQ on the audio recording of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments ... own recording equipment providing you give DWP/Atos notice and it meets DWP/Atos Healthcare requirements. This includes ...
Disability Rights UK welcomes new charitable partner Enabled City
25 October 2016 | News
... is a digital communications organisation which specialises in inclusive products and services including Wold-Bank, HERO Documents and PhotoRoute. These innovative solutions are inclusively ...
Covid-19 pandemic shows our benefits system unfit for purpose, says TUC
10 August 2020 | News
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed our benefits system to be unfit for purpose and needs a radical transformation, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has said. The umbrella organisation of Britain’s trade unions argues that the failings of the UK’s ...