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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 ...
Guidance ‘will boost confidence’ of employers who want to recruit disabled people
14 June 2023 | News
New guidance stressing that employers are allowed to reserve jobs for Disabled ... law. She approached the independent employment advice and conciliation service Acas to ask if it would produce new guidance. With support from Collier and Inclusion London's C hief E xecutive Tracey Lazard, Acas ...
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 ...
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 ...
22 more motorway service stations receive Changing Places funding
14 October 2020 | News
More motorway service stations have been given funding for new Changing Places facilities, as part of the ... to bid. A quarter of a million people who cannot use standard accessible toilets will benefit from the new ... better for the quarter of a million people who cannot use standard accessible toilets. This is why we would like to go ...
Review of housing standards conclusion 2014
09 April 2014 | News
As champions of the Lifetime Homes standard and Wheelchair Housing Design Guide, Habinteg was closely involved in the ...