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DR UK at the Getting Things Changed event
27 September 2017 | News
Barriers and drivers to disabled people as commissioners of their own ... Last week our Deputy CEO, Sue Bott along with Bernd Sass and Anna Denham, co-delivered a two-day workshop at the University of Bristol with regard to the “Getting Things Changed” research and development project. ...
Disability Unit’s response to DR UK’s call for accessible survey ‘immensely frustrating’
10 February 2021 | News
The government’s Disability Unit is currently running an online survey which will help to shape the ... from DR UK that the survey needed a longer response time and more accessible formats, including offline formats, the ... which formats are available. It says that a Word document and Easy Read documents are available and that “you can ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group's Statement on Government Welfare Bill
03 July 2025 | News
... 1st July outside the House of Commons, Disabled people met in the searing heat of London, and made their feelings known about the Universal Credit and PIP bill as it was being debated inside parliament. ...
Getting It Right For Disabled Apprentices report launched
06 February 2022 | News
What is it like being a Disabled apprentice? Our new report Getting It Right ... Apprentice Network as part of National Apprenticeship Week and funded by the Department for Education , the report ... from their point of view, examines the barriers they face and the best way for employers and training providers to ...
ESA to Universal Credit – things to know & helpful tips
29 November 2024 | News
A new, free online self-help factsheet, “ESA to Universal Credit”, is ... backgrounds, including women seeking-asylum, migrants and LGBTQI+ women. Since 2023, Universal Credit (UC) has ... been replacing a range of existing means-tested benefits and tax credits for working-age households. Note: Those ...
CQC Board appoints Ian Trenholm as new Chief Executive
01 May 2018 | News
Ian Trenholm has been appointed as the Care Quality Commission’s new Chief ... the CQC website Ian has been Chief Executive of NHS Blood and Transplant since 2014. Having started his career in the ... Operating Officer at the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Chief Executive of the Royal ...
MPs to examine Next steps to fix Universal Credit
30 November 2017 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee published a report on Universal Credit: the six-week wait in October 2017. Find out more about the inquiry Following ... Credit?" Now they are opening a new phase of the inquiry and calling for evidence on the areas they identified as the ...
New border control scheme "disaster" for care sector
18 February 2020 | News
The Government has unveiled an Australian-style points system to tighten up border controls which will come ... effect from January 2021. Unskilled or low skilled workers and those who can’t speak English to a certain level will ... UK. Unison, the UK’s largest healthcare sector union, branded the move “an absolute disaster for the care ...
Government refuses to commit to keeping or extending the £20 week uplift to Universal Credit
24 November 2020 | News
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Dr Thérèse Coffey has said today ... review took place today, alongside Rishi Sunak’s Spending Review. Dr Coffey said: “The statutory annual review ... from the temporary £20 per week uplift to universal credit and working tax credit, which was announced by the ...
Small employers Auto Pension enrolment guide
29 March 2015 | News
The Pensions Regulator introduces new online step-by-step guide for small employers ... employers, more than 20% of those due to stage between June and November this year had not yet drawn up plans to meet their duties. To support small and micro employers to meet their duties, The Pensions ...