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We call for a single disability employment programme
15 May 2013 | News
... Liz Sayce calls on Government to establish a one-stop single disability employment programme – with power in the hands of people living with disability or health conditions, backed by peer support and a strong role for organisations led by disabled people. ...
Committee slams DWP UC waste
11 September 2013 | News
... Committee of Public Accounts (PAC) The Department for Work and Pensions has made such a mess of setting up Universal Credit that the Major Projects Authority ... idea as to how it was actually going to work. Confusion and poor management at the highest levels have already ...
The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey
14 March 2019 | News
The Business Disability Forum advises people managers and departmental leaders every day on adjustments, policies and related employee caseloads. Their Workplace Adjustments ...
Media responses to our Taking Control report
07 October 2013 | News
There has been a great deal of media interest in our new report 'Taking Control of Employment ... failing disabled people (with at least an 88% failure rate) and is very poor value for money. The report also found that ... The BBC also covered the news item on video and interviewed Liz Sayce. You can view this at ...
We respond to homecare maximum expenditure policy
14 August 2013 | News
... Rights UK believes no one should be forced to go into residential care against their wishes. It is completely ... independent living. Enabling disabled people to have choice and control is the best use of public money - enabling us to participate fully in our communities and contribute.' The High Court has rejected a legal ...
Boy wins grammar school discrimination case
15 September 2020 | News
A visually impaired child has won his 11+ discrimination case against Reading Grammar School. The Equality and Human Rights Commission supported the boy after the ... path to an equal society starts in childhood. It is right and just that disabled children receive parity of ...
C4 Dispatches: UC stories wanted
10 February 2015 | News
C4 Dispatches is looking at the introduction of Universal Credit and how it is working in practice and the consequences of the new system for claimants They ...
Local Welfare Provision funding extended
03 February 2015 | News
... reviewed its previous decision to end Local Authority Funding for Local Welfare Assistance Schemes from April 2015 ... including to help them respond to local welfare needs and to improve social care provision.” [ Hansard 3 ... : Column 5WS ). Local Welfare Assistance Schemes are grants and loans, provided by your Local Authority, to meet a ...
Prescription Charges Coalition petition smashes target: Help with the final push
29 May 2018 | News
... Charges Coalition has smashed its 20,000 target and are now aiming to reach 25,000 signatures on their petition! Thousands of people tell the Prescription Charges Coalition (PCC) ...
The budget must deliver great things for disabled people
21 November 2017 | News
In this Huffington Post blog, Philip Connolly, Policy and ... effort to supporting everyone to make a contribution, and give more effort to those who are further behind. Good ...