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Pledgeathon event at Financial Times HQ marks new approach to fair chance of a job for disabled people
19 March 2018 | News
Disability Rights UK have invited all the leading businesses in the UK (FTSE 250) and the leaders of all the local councils in England and Wales to be participants in their “I can make a ...
Workplace Pension Seminars
20 November 2016 | News
... put on a series of free afternoon workplace pension seminars during October and November 2016. The law on workplace pensions has ... employer must put certain staff into a pension scheme, and contribute towards it- a system called auto-enrolment- ...
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 ...