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DR UK Handbook Editor on 'Completely Unfair' Government Bill Concessions
27 June 2025 | News
Our Handbook Editor, Ian Greaves, breaks down the Government's ... to the large number of Labour MPs who were threatening to vote against the welfare bill on Tuesday 1 July. That evening Liz Kendall , the Work and Pensions Secretary, wrote a letter to MPs to explain ...
Community Transport Association calls for an end to cuts to dial-a-ride services
08 March 2023 | News
The national charity that represents and supports providers of community transport, the Community Transport Association, is calling for the service to be fully funded and ring-fenced against future cuts. The call comes as a ...
Deaf claimant wrongly had 4 weeks sanction imposed after mistakenly being 10 minutes late for training course
02 September 2015 | News
A deaf claimant who received a four week sanction - stopping all his Jobseeker’s Allowance - after being ten ... claimant was a 53 year old man who had difficulty hearing and so wore a hearing aid in his right ear. He was told that he was required to attend and complete a CV writing course from 11.15 am to 12.15 pm. ...
Learn about High Quality Study Programmes for Learners with SEND
15 February 2018 | News
... Needs or Disabilities (SEND)? View flyer Do you want to find out more about innovative practice in study programme design and delivery for learners with SEND? Then come along to ... of these innovative practice events, organised by Natspec and ACER, in March in Birmingham, London, Cambridge or ...
Students report human rights achievements
26 April 2015 | News
Equally Ours aims to help everyone understand how human rights benefit all of us in the UK. Disability Rights UK are partners of Equally ... sector organisations committed to helping everyone obtain and enforce their rights as citizens to such basic needs as ...
Govt say no to cumulative impact of welfare reform
27 July 2014 | News
... The cumulative impact of welfare reform: a commentary. Since coming to power in May 2010 the Government has pursued ... can be expected to impact on claimant households in many and varied ways. SSAC has found it difficult to assess the ... are compounded by the need to assess impact over time and in different parts of the country. Indeed reforms which ...
DR UK supporting the Justice for Jodey Whiting campaign
21 July 2019 | News
We are supporting calls for an independent inquiry into links between Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings and the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. We have joined ...
We want Access to Work to be easier to claim
27 October 2013 | News
More people are using Access to Work. In 2012-13 10,390 started using Access ... Work (called ‘new starts’), up from 9,760 in 2011-12; and the first quarter of 2013-14 looks a bit better again ... using Access to Work in 2012-13 was 31,450 (ie new starts and on-going users) – again more than the year before. ...
DWP vacancies
31 July 2022 | News
DWP seeking Chair for MaPS Money and Pensions ... The Money and Pensions Service’s (MaPS) vision is everyone making ...
Great North run: Congratulations to Lucy Downham
07 September 2014 | News
... Rights UK would like to congratulate Lucy Downham on completing this year's Great North Run Lucy is the niece of Jack Ashley and she ran, on behalf of Disability Rights UK, in memory of ... MP for Stoke-on-Trent South for 26 years from 1966 to 1992 and subsequently sat in the House of Lords. He was ...