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Responses to Local Support Services Framework
01 August 2013 | News
The Local Support Services Framework sets out the principles for the kind of support that will be funded and made available for claimants who may have difficulty ... that some claimants will require support with: Triage and explaining the new services, particularly while they are ...
Leadership Academy Executive speaks at the Leadership Development Summit
18 September 2018 | News
DR UK Leadership Academy Executive, Katrina Morris, spoke at the Talent Management and Leadership Development Summit 2018 on 13 September 2018 ... about Disability Rights UK's Leadership Academy Programme and how it has impacted employees with disabilities. The ...
Disabled people take over Vogue
04 May 2023 | News
The May edition of Vogue has put Disabled people front and centre, with five distinct covers featuring Selma Blair, Aaron Rose Philip, Ellie Goldstein, Justina Miles, and Sinead Burke who all identify as Disabled. The magazine ...
Law Commission Hate Crime law recommendations
27 May 2014 | News
The final report of the Law Commission's consultation, Hate ... Council on the sentencing approach in hate crime cases; and that every time enhanced sentencing is applied, this ... all the available data to establish whether such offences - and the enhanced sentencing system - should be retained in ...
Calling all organisations who support disabled people to employ personal assistants
04 February 2019 | News
... charities to become authorised advisors to EU citizens applying to settle in the UK. Find out more The Office of the ... Commissioner (OISC) has launched a new scheme for charities and other organisations to apply more quickly to become ... The scheme is aimed at smaller, community-based charities and other organisations, including faith-based and local ...
BBC commits to TV diversity from April 2021
21 June 2020 | News
The BBC has pledged a £100m budget to increasing diversity on TV over a three year period from April 2021. The BBC has set itself a mandatory target - 20% of off-screen talent must come from ... our population, 8% for the LGBTQ community, which makes up nearly 7% of our population, and only 8% for disabled people, ...
York a ‘no go zone’ for Disabled people
23 November 2021 | News
Disabled campaigners in York are planning a legal challenge against City of York ... city has become a “no go zone” for many Disabled people and there was now no accessible parking within 150 metres of ... challenge that such moves breach the Equality Act 2010 and the human rights of Disabled residents and visitors. ...
DR UK's Statement On Autumn Budget
30 October 2024 | News
Today's budget should have offered hope and a lifeline for the 16 million Disabled people across the UK. Over the past 15 years, we've time and again had governments espouse so-called tough choices ...
Man dies after cancer services ‘slowed down’ to deal with Covid
15 December 2020 | News
... non-Covid-related medical care. It took two months for Sherwin Hall’s leg pain to be diagnosed as stemming from a ... the ticking time bomb of untreated cancer patients, and estimated that between 7,000 and 18,000 people would die as ‘excess deaths’ – ...
Disabled energy user forced onto meter
28 November 2022 | News
A Disabled woman has faced what she described as “bullying” from her energy supplier trying to “force” her to ... been changed) has multiple disabilities including paralysis and relies on a number of medical devices and equipment in her home to keep her mobile. Speaking ...