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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 ...
Sue Bott comments on Shared Lives Plus
19 May 2015 | News
Shared Lives Plus is a scheme where ordinary people open up their own homes and family lives to support vulnerable adults and young people Demand for the scheme has grown rapidly, by ...
DR UK comments on the Green Paper on work capability assessment
29 October 2016 | News
... DR UK wants from the Green Paper on disability, employment and the work capability assessment. Commenting on Government plans to make changes to the work capability assessment and the way disabled people are supported to get and keep ...
A human rights agenda from people living with health conditions or disability
28 March 2017 | News
In this Bright Blue Project blog, DR UK CEO Liz Sayce ... of retrogression across some Articles of the Convention; and stasis in others. There have been some specific positive ... honest dialogue between disabled people’s organisations and Government, it should be possible to put in place a mix ...
We want disabled peoples' experience of the criminal justice system
21 January 2019 | News
Disability Rights UK, in partnership with a leading research agency working both nationally and internationally, are exploring the possibility of hosting a series of focus groups to better understand the experiences of disabled people when interacting with ...