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DR UK gives evidence to Financial Exclusion Committee
12 September 2016 | News
Financial Exclusion Committee - Oral Evidence Session – ... Senior Policy Manager , Age UK Mr Philip Connolly, Policy and Communications Manager, Disability Rights UK DR UK would ... nature of financial exclusion that your members experience and what are the main causes of this exclusion? To what ...
Our meeting with Ed Miliband
11 January 2015 | News
Ed Miliband the labour Leader is a guest of Disability Rights UK and South Yorkshire Centre for Independent Living On Friday January 9th the labour leader ...
Personalised support services event
11 September 2013 | News
... Date:Wednesday, 25 September 2013 09:30 - 12:00 Venue: King's College London The setting for everyone involved with care and support services is changing. While the benefits of offering disabled people choice and control over their support are wide ranging, developing ...
Taxing until the pips squeek
29 March 2015 | News
... have developed options for politicians to make spending cuts that would again unfairly hit disabled people and carers. These include the proposal to tax Disability ... extra costs of disability – things like getting around, and getting support - and so create more of a level playing ...
Disabled woman’s cause of death after routine operation was partly from neglect
27 April 2021 | News
A woman with learning disabilities died after a routine eye operation from ... stopped eating shortly after she was admitted to hospital, and that doctors ignored her attempts to communicate. She ... due to inadequate management for her nutritional needs” and that her death “was contributed to by neglect”. ...
Aim to make Purple Tuesday Purple All Year Round
12 November 2018 | News
In 2011 Philip Connolly, our policy and communications ... power. Colour is a very important way of doing this." Nearly one in every five people in the UK has a disability or ...
MPs vote to postpone controversial cuts to ESA
16 November 2016 | News
... MPs vote 127- 0 to postpone controversial cuts to ESA following warnings from the disability community. Original post ... voted to postpone a £30 weekly cut to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Universal Credit (UC). Mencap believe this should now be ...
I Can Make It’s new Champion is ready to start making a difference with us
29 September 2016 | News
... that a new volunteer champion, Rose Trevelyan, will be joining us at our offices starting from Wednesday 5 th ... with us at our office in London every Wednesday afternoon, and will she will carry out duties including working on ... had considerable difficulties accessing Higher Education and employment, but with support have managed to enter my ...
New report explores lives of people with energy impairments
28 May 2019 | News
... with energy impairments The DRILL -funded Chronic Illness Inclusion Project has released a short new report with ... Inclusion Project's emancipatory research on benefits and work" focuses on employment and social security, but touches on other aspects of ...
Two new Get Yourself Active blogs
10 February 2016 | News
Get Yourself Active aims to increase the number of disabled people playing sport or to ... Active Project Manager Leanne Wightman, explains how health and wellbeing is fast becoming a key consideration for organisations across the voluntary and statutory sector, in health, social care and sport and ...