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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 ...
DR UK response to the Summer Budget
07 July 2015 | News
Commenting on the budget, Liz Sayce, CEO of Disability Rights UK ... which supports disabled people to be more independent and helps those who can work into employment. Policies to ... meantime we are unclear whether these changes include the nearly half a million people currently waiting for a Work ...
Lords votes to fail working age Disabled people over care charging
04 May 2022 | News
The House of Lords has voted in favour of the current version of the Health and Social Care Bill, effectively voting against amendments that would have ensured that nobody in England under the age of 40 would have to pay for their care and ...
School bubbles to be popped, raising fears for Disabled children
05 July 2021 | News
Covid rules that require whole classes in England to isolate are to be dropped, raising questions ... of safety measures in the face of rising cases, and the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid warned that once ...
DR UK event calls on employers to pledge jobs for disabled people
05 March 2018 | News
... Time: 10am (Registration from 9.30am) until 4pm Venue: Financial Times Office, One Southwark Bridge, London, SE1 9HL ... Make a Pledge about? We are asking all local authorities and businesses to either pledge a specific number of jobs ... requirement of some of the services that they contract. How and what you decide to pledge is up to you, but we will ...