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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 ...
Cutting disabled people’s benefits will make it harder for them to find work
11 January 2016 | News
We’re so glad that Disability Rights UK Ambassador Lord Colin Low has come out against the proposed 30% Employment and Support Allowance cut from 2017 to new claimants in the ... people in the WRAG group who want to get back into work (and many would like to) it’s clear what is needed: much ...
Driving down the costs disabled people face
23 June 2015 | News
... Extra Costs Commission report marks the end of a year-long independent inquiry into the extra costs faced by disabled people and their families It calls on disabled people to: be ‘bold and loud’ and build consumer power behind the ‘purple ...
£450k announced to help patients have their say on health services
12 September 2018 | News
A windfall of £450,000 to support practical and innovative ... programme has been awarded the money from NHS England and the National Lottery – through the Big Lottery ...
DR UK delivers thought provoking training at the orpheus centre
08 January 2018 | News
... Rights UK recently delivered Disability Confidence and Awareness training at the Orpheus Centre. Orpheus is an independent ... specialist college in Surrey that increases the confidence and skills of young disabled adults through the performing ...
Spirit of 2012 award winners
15 July 2015 | News
Four organisations working in the UK have been awarded a ‘Challenge Fund’ grant to create opportunities for disabled people in arts and cultural activities Three organisations, Beacon Hill Arts , Oasis Children’s Venture and ARC Stockton , have received full grants to deliver up ...
NAWRA receives reply from Esther McVey over potential ESA underpayments
23 January 2018 | News
Letter to new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions about income related ESA. Last year, NAWRA (National Association ... Allowance claimants who had been migrated to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), and only been awarded ...