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Disability Rights UK on Korean TV
25 June 2013 | News
MBC Newsdesk interviews Disability Rights UK regarding accessible ... MBC interviewed Disability Rights UK’s Liz Sayce and Banane Nafeh about accessible transport in London. The YouTube video shows Banane using both buses and cabs within London. The news article starts 47 minutes ...
Smart motorways legal challenge
12 July 2020 | News
... from the disabled community as she seeks a judicial review into the safety of smart motorways. Claire Mercer’s husband Jason died in June last year, along with another man, ... 300 miles of smart motorways by 2025. It takes Highways England just under 20 minutes to spot a breakdown on CCTV. There ...
PIP: walking through pain is not walking to an acceptable standard
28 July 2016 | News
... judgment holds that while someone may ‘push through pain’ in order to continue walking this does not mean that they are walking to an “acceptable standard” for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) purposes. ... which the pain meant that walking was to an unacceptable standard. While Judge Markus finds that while the appellant in ...
Disabled people help train bus staff on accessibility
23 February 2016 | News
Our ambassador, Stephen Brookes, highlights success in the integration of disabled people into the process of training drivers and conductors in Blackpool. The transport project has ... group for the project will now be looking at ways of expanding this work in future. Stephen Brookes, is lead on the ...
Traineeships funding reform: Govt response
17 November 2014 | News
Traineeships: funding reform in England consultation This is a joint consultation from the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. They ...
Supporting disabled people through traineeships consultation
21 August 2018 | News
Disability Rights UK has the ambition of producing a short publication on good practice in supporting disabled people on to and through traineeships and are seeking examples of good practice. These examples ...
DR UK appear at Conservative Disability Group Colloquium
14 May 2018 | News
... – 3.00pm. Venue: The Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster. Philip was part of a panel which included the Business Disability Forum and Chris Wood who is campaigning for wheelchair users to fly with dignity and safety in their own chair inside the cabin of an ...
BBC looking for disabled people under 30
18 September 2014 | News
BBC 3 are making a brand new series that explores disability in the under 30s Are you young and disabled and looking for a carer/personal assistant? ...
Channel 4 Dispatches: the bedroom tax
09 February 2014 | News
Benefits Britain: The Bedroom Tax Channel 4 Dispatches will broadcast a ... claims that the tax is fair, saving taxpayers money and encouraging welfare claimants to live in appropriately ... travels the country to meet those affected by the change and those supposed to be implementing it. He speaks to the ...
Lords Disability Committee appointed
21 June 2015 | News
Equality Act 2010 and Disability Committee appointed by House of Lords The House of Lords confirmed the appointment of an ad hoc committee "to consider and report on the impact on people with disabilities of the ...