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Airlines given guidance on assisting passengers with hidden disabilities
14 October 2018 | News
... UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has today published new industry guidance on assisting passengers with hidden disabilities. View guidance The ... airlines follows similar advice given to airports in 2016 and has been formulated in association with disability ...
Access All Areas Guide Dogs: Write to your MP
18 March 2019 | News
... people tell Guide Dogs they are turned away from a taxi or minicab just because they have a guide dog. To stop access ... refusals the Government recently said they want all taxi and minicab drivers to have disability equality training but ... law. This is something that Guide Dogs been demanding for nearly three years - it’s been long enough. Ask the ...
Our appeals jargon factsheet
07 October 2014 | News
Appealing against a decision? Don't know what the jargon means? ... Appeals jargon wiki factsheet is an A to Z of useful terms and legal jargon used in the reconsideration and appeal process of challenging decisions on social ...
Police restraint causes death of young man undergoing mental health treatment
09 May 2017 | News
... three days after he was subjected to two periods of restraint by police lasting more than 30 minutes, while in the care of Bethlem Royal ... to reduce or eliminate the use of restraint, seclusion and inappropriately prescribed medication to disabled ...
Russian hologram solution to disabled parking space theft
15 October 2015 | News
More than 30% of the drivers in Russia take disabled parking spaces without caring about the signs on the ground ... the presence of the disabled sticker on their windshields and if no sticker was detected, the hologram would appear to ...
All PIP claimants to be offered apply online option
29 November 2021 | News
... number of claimants able to be offered the option of completing their PIP claim online is currently around 500 per day. They are sent an ... service. Upskilling is set to be completed within a week and by 6 December the email service will be offered to all ...
Read DR UK CEO Kamran Malick's blog on the Global Disability Summit
22 July 2018 | News
The UK Global Disability Summit, which takes place in London today (Monday 23 July 2018), comes at an interesting time for disabled people in this country. Read ... Around 800 people from disabled people’s organisations and foreign governments will assemble in London. They arrive ...
Whatever happened to disability equality?
20 July 2015 | News
In her latest blog our CEO Liz Sayce highlights some of our recent work in promoting disability equality and what needs to be done in future View blog Whatever ...
Dis Life: The Silent Twins
14 December 2022 | News
DR UK's Anna Morell reviews new movie The Silent Twins about selectively mute and neurodiverse twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons in her Dis Life Daily Mirror column. ...
Disability Benefits Without the Fight campaign launched: the right to request an appropriate medical assessor
29 September 2021 | News
... Benefits Without the Fight (#WithoutTheFight) campaign calling on the Government to provide Disabled people with a ... to request an appropriate assessor for PIP assessments and Work Capability Assessments (WCA). An open sent letter to Therese Coffey Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, signed by DR UK and several other disability ...