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Universal Credit case studies wanted
27 May 2015 | News
Nine Lives Media are making another Channel 4 Dispatches about benefit changes, and are focussing on how people who are in work and on benefits are being affected They are looking for case ...
McDonald case helps care plan disputes
19 May 2014 | News
... to consider dignity can be a breach of human rights Today in its ruling on the Mcdonald case (for background see ... care package without any reassessment between November 2008 and November 2009 was a breach of Article 8 and accordingly awarded her damages and costs. Although the ...
Disability Confident roadshow tours Britain
20 November 2013 | News
From today, the Department for Work and Pensions has launched a series of conferences across the country aimed at showcasing the talents of the 6.9 million disabled people of working-age in Great Britain and highlighting their huge value to the British economy. ...
Disabled women over 11 times more likely to die of Coronavirus
18 June 2020 | News
Disabled women with limiting disabilities aged under 65 are 11.3 times more likely to ... limiting disabilities are 6.5 times more likely to die, and a third of all lives lost to Coronavirus in the UK have ... compared to 35.6 deaths per 100,000. The figures are nearly three times higher for disabled men with significant ...
Work Programme only helps 10 per cent ESA cases
19 June 2013 | News
... Performance Report is designed to provide statistical information on the performance of the Work Programme. The ... Programme has had less success with those on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Overall, 10 per cent of those ... half of all young people who had been on the scheme for nearly two years have found work. This is the best performing ...
Leicester CIL create Get Yourself Active twitter feed
24 April 2016 | News
... campaign. Get Yourself Active a project which is all about finding ways to help you get active and feel physically and mentally well. The project is run by DR UK, funded by ...
Symposium on Paralympics legacy
14 May 2013 | News
... the sort of media attention which moved us from “tragic and brave” towards genuine discussion about sporting talent. There was also a ... of focus. Very many disabled people have real concerns and fears. So how can we continue the positive sea change in ...
A timely meeting with Wates Group for I Can Make It
08 February 2018 | News
I Can Make It to help Wates Construction in its use of social value. On Wednesday 7 th February Our Policy and Development Manager Philip Connolly along with Michael Paul, Head of Advice and Information and Leo Capella, I Can Make Its Campaign ...
Government defers changes to DSA
26 March 2015 | News
We are glad that the Minister for Business Innovation and Skills has listened to the concerns of disabled students and has decided that proposed reductions to Disabled ...
DR UK statement on the new Government
13 July 2016 | News
... as it moves away from a hard focus on deficit reduction, to invest in disabled people’s full participation in society ... living support have hit disabled people very hard - and are a false economy. If people are isolated because of ... work – then some people are simply locked out of society and its opportunities. Then the whole of society suffers – ...