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Liz Sayce discusses Community Participation and Universal Design
14 May 2017 | News
DR UK CEO Liz Sayce looks both back and forwards at the disability rights movement in this podcast for the Martyn Sibley Show. Hear podcast In this podcast Liz talks about the early battles to both be heard and eventually win political ...
Disabled People Are Not a Scapegoat for Governmental Failures
26 September 2024 | News
Our Policy and Campaigns Officer, Dan White, writes about the worrying Government policy proposals that would offer the DWP ... the Covid pandemic and has since remained at a high level. Nearly 3 million people are out of work due to ill health, a ...
Experience only comes with time and practice, trying things out and failing sometimes
10 April 2017 | News
Simon from London tells Get Yourself Active how training for, and competing in, the World Transplant Games helps him to ... fit for life so as to avoid many of the modern-day health problems has to be a priority for me.” He even reveals ...
PIP and DLA Mandatory Reconsideration Letter Tools
28 January 2018 | News
... adviser, parent or support worker) to write an effective mandatory reconsideration request letter aimed at getting the decision changed at the earliest stage. If you have ... the DWP don’t change their decision, you can appeal and use their How to win a DLA appeal for advice. Advicenow ...
Pushed to the Edge: Poverty, food banks and mental health
08 March 2022 | News
Last month, the Food Foundation highlighted a sharp increase in the number of people experiencing food ... co-produced by the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), explores the ... many of the interviewees had either developed mental health problems, had existing mental health problems exacerbated, ...
Accessibility and planned refurbishment of parliament
07 September 2016 | News
Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster: Restoration and ... security staff. Philip Connolly said, “This is clearly a long-term process but we are pleased to have had ...
New Citizens Advice analysis on disability and work
02 August 2016 | News
Employers and government must do more to close health and disability ... condition are more than twice as likely to fall out of work in any given year compared with people who are not disabled or do not have health problems, reveals new analysis from Citizens Advice. New ...
Vulnerable man put at risk for more than 18 months because of Council’s safeguarding failings
08 May 2019 | News
... Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council being alerted to problems, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found. The man, whose health ... all relevant staff receive safeguarding training to ensure issues are dealt with promptly and appropriately and review ...
DR UK contributes to Barclays disability and careers toolkit
12 December 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK and Barclays working in partnership to increase awareness around Disability & Early Careers employment. On December 2 nd Liz Sayce, ...
EHRC has failed families over benefit deaths say bereaved relatives
02 May 2022 | News
... relatives because of the actions of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have accused the equality watchdog of ... department to follow an action plan aimed at “resolving issues for DWP customers”. The details of the so-called ... caused.” An inquest in January 2021 uncovered 28 separate problems with the personal independence payment system that ...