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Liz Sayce attends Disability Employment Conference
17 July 2013 | News
Disability Employment Conference - Working Together This conference aims to bring business and government together at the start of a two year campaign ... co-hosted by the Minister for Disabled People, Esther McVey and Frank Gardner, BBC. Speakers include: Ashok Vaswani CEO ...
Fuel Poverty Awareness Day
14 February 2019 | News
... recognised day to raise awareness of fuel poverty and the importance of living in a warm and safe home. The day is coordinated by End Fuel Poverty ...
Care home gives residents less than ten hours' notice of closure
05 December 2021 | News
A short-staffed care home for people with learning disabilities in Kent gave families less than ten ... Kent looked after adults with severe learning difficulties and autism. Its operator decided five weeks ago it could no longer operate and told families they would have 28 days’ notice of the ...
Government promises a ‘New Deal for Renters’
26 June 2022 | News
After a long three-year wait, the government finally released its “New Deal for Renters”, the fairer ... million Disabled people in the UK are renting privately. And with recent investigations by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism highlighting huge inequalities and barriers faced by Disabled people in housing, the paper ...
Disability campaigner Baroness Masham dies at 87
14 March 2023 | News
Baroness Masham, who set up the Spinal Injuries Association, has died aged 87. A lifelong ... campaigner, Baroness Masham was a Paralympian swimming and table tennis medallist throughout the 1960s, and became a life peer in the House of Lords in 1970. She ...
DRILL second call for applications
01 May 2017 | News
Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning (DRILL) is the world’s ... led by disabled people. It covers the whole of the UK and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund until 2020. DRILL is ...
Holocaust Memorial Day
26 January 2020 | News
... the liberation of Auschwitz. DRUK representatives will be joining community leaders, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a Holocaust Memorial Day ...
Hackney Council sued after council home caused lung disease
26 January 2023 | News
A tenant with an incurable lung condition he argues was caused by the mould ... in his flat has called for greater punishments for councils and landlords that fail to act on "inhumane" living conditions. ...
Safe Hate Crime reporting
02 February 2015 | News
Katie Cutler’s decision to set up an online donation page to help a disabled man who had his collar ... broken by a mugger is to be commended It was a very decent and praiseworthy reaction and sends out a positive message for attitudes to ...
The Department for Transport has confirmed the appointment of new members to the Disabled Transport Advisory Committee
12 March 2025 | News
Local Transport Minister Simon Lightwood has announced the appointment of 13 ... – prominent leader in public policy, disability advocacy, and corporate governance Mark Cutter – Chair of Northern’s Accessibility User Group (NAUG) and the Rail Accessibility and Inclusion Forum for the North ...