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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 – ...
Government publishes strategy to improve women’s health
26 July 2022 | News
... Health Strategy published last week commits to addressing disparities in outcomes experienced by some groups – ... improve data collection around the health of Disabled women and some other groups covered by equalities legislation – ... sets out plans for improving access to screening services and for encouraging more research into how new approaches to ...
Supreme Court rules benefit cap lawful
17 March 2015 | News
... an appeal by two women that the bedroom tax cap is discriminatory against women, particularly where they have escaped ... appeal concerns two women who have been left by their husbands to look after their young children, following suffered ... alternative accommodation, which although considered poor and inadequate, is very expensive and has led to their ...
Govt announces extension of Access to Work
15 July 2013 | News
Disabled people on traineeships, supported internships, work trials and work academies will get additional help through Access ... disabilityrightsuk.org/access-work The Department for Work and Pensions has just published Employing disabled people ...
Challenge to Council Maximum Expenditure Policy
22 May 2013 | News
... This Maximum Expenditure Policy may force many people into residential care as the Council will place a cap on the ... Court judge today granted permission for Irwin Mitchell and the teenager, supported by his mother acting as his ... the council refused to review their decision on the policy and re-consult. It is believed to be the first time this ...
Disabled people at greater Covid death risk - ONS research
17 June 2021 | News
Research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has found that Disabled people in England are at an ...
Misleading Universal Credit ads banned by ASA
05 November 2019 | News
Advertisements claiming to 'set the record straight' about universal credit have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for being inaccurate and misleading. The ASA received 44 complaints about ...