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Will the Budget deliver for disabled people?
08 March 2020 | News
... CEO of Disability Rights UK said: “We will be watching the Budget with great interest, to see if funding is ... people already make an enormous contribution to society and we could do even more if government provided us with vital support and removed barriers to inclusion.” Disability Rights UK ...
Improved support needed for disabled university students
13 July 2020 | News
DR UK is calling on the Department for Education to scrap the £200 ... the APPG about the delays in obtaining accessible equipment and the financial contribution of £200 they have to pay ... equipment is received by disabled students in August and that the £200 contribution is removed. Fazilet Hadi, DR ...
Our response: Paying disabled people less for work
15 October 2014 | News
... suggested disabled people could be paid less than the minimum wage Lord Freud made the remarks during a fringe ... that takes account of different people’s individual needs and puts choice and control in the hands of individuals and employers." We ...
Court upholds policy limiting home care spending
11 August 2013 | News
... Council's "maximum expenditure policy" which, when introduced, will limit how much is spent on supporting a ... policy during its public consultation. It was felt that D, and other disabled people in Worcestershire, may be forced ... policy objectives of giving disabled individuals control and choice over their care support, encouraging disabled ...
DR UK says: Fix this broken system
23 August 2015 | News
... to fix a broken system Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith made a major speech today on the future of Employment and Support Allowance. Liz Sayce, spoke to the Independent ...
DR UK response to access to justice reforms
10 March 2019 | News
Disability Rights UK submission to the Justice Committee inquiry into the access to justice implications of HMCTS of ... the programme of reforms underway in Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), including the increasing use of digital and video technology and the closures of courts and tribunal ...
Access to Work Workplace Mental Health Support Service Webinar
26 February 2018 | News
Disability Rights UK and Remploy free webinar - March 28, 2018, 12.30pm T he Access to Work, ... the Workplace Mental Health Support Service (WMHSS), a free and confidential service delivered on behalf of Access to ...
Participants needed for research project examining how the benefits system has responded to Covid 19
08 June 2020 | News
Salford University working with University of Leeds, LSE and the University of Kent ... system nationally has responded to the Coronavirus pandemic. The “Welfare at a Social Distance project” aims ...
Liz Sayce gives Access to Work evidence to MPs
07 July 2014 | News
The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today held the first of four oral evidence sessions for its inquiry into Employment support for disabled people: Access ... Officer, ECDP (Essex Coalition of Disabled People) and former Chair of the Government’s Access to Work expert ...
No need to call DWP as part of the Universal Credit claims process
08 April 2020 | News
... call us - we’ll call you” approach for those claiming Universal Credit. Instead, a bolstered frontline team ... DWP says the move is designed to take some of the worry and frustration out of submitting a claim, while speeding it ... an end to long call wait times. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Therese Coffey said: “We are doing whatever ...