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A reminder of our I Can Make It Presents videos
22 June 2017 | News
We’d like to use our weekly update to remind everyone of the videos that I Can Make It and Disability Rights UK have made on employment. We have ... disabilities at work. In April 2016, Disability Rights UK and National Star College co-produced a video of two ...
High Court upholds decision to close ILF
07 December 2014 | News
... has today upheld the Government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund at the end of June 2015. This will ... those funds transferred to their local authority. Only a handful of local authorities have agreed to ring fence the ... to existing ILF recipients. Sue Bott, Director of Policy and Development for Disability Rights UK says: “This ...
Habitual residence test exemptions guidance
29 May 2014 | News
... to the regulations which provide that a claimant is ineligible for benefit where they are a “person from ... based jobseeker’s allowance, income related employment and support allowance and pension credit.”. As a result of the regulation change ...
No Voice Unheard, No Rights Ignored response
17 November 2015 | News
... ‘No Voice Unheard, No Rights Ignored’ concerning services to people with learning disabilities, autism or ... the consultation we argued that people of all impairments and long-term health conditions should be treated equally and in accordance with the UK’s obligations enshrined in ...
Social care complaints to Ombudsman up 16 per cent
14 July 2014 | News
Ombudsman publishes local authority complaint statistics in new report The Local Government Ombudsman ... 20,306 complaints, the LGO registered 18,436 new complaints and enquiries specifically about local authorities. In ... comparison to the previous year: complaints about benefits and tax increased by 26% complaints about local authority ...
Delegation meets Anne McGuire
10 September 2013 | News
A delegation of disabled people and allies from around the country met Anne McGuire, Shadow Minister for Disabled People Both the Minister, Esther McVey and Shadow Minister cancelled attending a major national ...
No support for blind within 10 years
09 September 2013 | News
RNIB’s new report finds that in less than ten years, no blind and partially sighted people will receive any form of care ... of council support - down from 55,875 people to 31,740, nearly 25,000 fewer people. If trends continue, in just 10 ...
Universal Credit costs six times more than planned
02 June 2013 | News
... than the previously claimed £2.2bn The reason for these increased costs is that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will also have to run existing benefits ... £12.8bn will be used to cover costs which include the IT and staff costs for both UC and six existing benefits it is ...
A fifth of shielders not vaccinated when government declared vaccines win
03 March 2021 | News
A fifth of people on the government’s clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) list had not had the ... the first four groups had been offered the vaccine. NHS England data shows that between 92% and 99% of people in the 70 to 80+ age brackets had had at ...
DR UK says public sector should do disability benefits assessments
08 April 2018 | News
... visit. Ken Butler, DR UK welfare benefits advisor, told The Independent : “Time and time again we hear of poor assessment practices when it ... are turned down for benefits because of bad administration and decision making. “It’s unacceptable that companies ...