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Disability Rights UK calls for immediate reform of disgraceful PIP mobility rules
11 April 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is appalled at figures showing that more than 50,000 disabled people have had specially ... independence, in many cases removed their ability to work and meant they are effectively housebound. However, the ... their higher mobility payments – worth £57.45 per week and a vital contribution to their extra costs of travel. ...
Older peoples social care spending falling
21 January 2015 | News
... a social care ‘score card’ that shows despite rising demand from growing numbers of people in need of ... (14.4%) since 2010/11 In 2005/6 15.3% of all people aged 65 and over (1,230,625) received social care. By 2010/11 that ...
Bedroom tax human rights appeal win
01 October 2013 | News
... condition was so severe she needed a specially adapted bed and bedroom has won her appeal against the bedroom tax. A tribunal judge in Glasgow has ruled ... case was a breach of human rights. The judge ruled that she and her husband were legally entitled to a bedroom each ...
Transport access for all
25 July 2016 | News
... on better transport accessibility for disabled people. In this blog he talks about new initiatives on the East ... on the Disability Action Alliance (DAA) Transport project and has, in the past, highlighted success in the integration ... of disabled people into the process of training drivers and conductors in Blackpool. You can view a video explaining ...
CQC criticises standard of care homes
13 October 2014 | News
The Chief Inspector of social care says there is too much bad care in ... knows their rights – to live at home with support, and to proper standards of care wherever they are based. Read our new Taking ...
Top airlines poor on accessibility
06 August 2014 | News
In a new AbilityNet survey, only one of the top twelve carriers and holiday companies sampled met the minimum accessibility standards. The companies surveyed were British Airways, ...
Cost of prescriptions prevent people from getting necessary medication
28 June 2017 | News
A third of people living with long-term conditions and currently paying ... research and are currently paying for their prescriptions, nearly a third (30%) admitted that they are skipping or ...
Two new blogs from Get Yourself Active
28 July 2016 | News
... has now published two new blogs related to the project Getting active…the way you want – Our CEO Liz Sayce blogs on ... led by Disability Rights UK, funded by Sport England and delivered by Leicester Centre for Integrated Living and ...
Win Win Alliance forum
22 June 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK works on 'disability as an asset in the NHS' to inform and underpin forthcoming Workforce Disability Equality Standard. More about the workforce disability equality ...
Ombudsman finds against Essex Council’s decision not to allow Disability Related Expenses
23 June 2021 | News
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found Essex County Council at fault in how it considered two separate women’s Disability ... Deputies cost more than the rates for its own Deputies, and as such, it was not reasonable to treat the higher cost ...