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Understanding the Intersection: Unemployment Disparities Among Disabled Individuals at the Crossroads of Ethnicity
25 January 2024 | News
... report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) delves into the intersectionality of ethnicity and disability in relation to unemployment rates in England and Wales, using data from Census 2021. The findings ...
Government To Be Taken To Court Over Work Capability Assessment Reforms
07 May 2024 | News
... rights campaigner has been granted permission to bring a judicial review of the Government consultation over reforms affecting Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Universal Credit (UC). Ellen ... on them. Around 230,000 people with serious mobility problems preventing them from working could miss out on the ...
Government must raise sick pay rate to living wage, urges disability charities and trade unions coalition
13 October 2022 | News
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has been asked “to create a sick pay system that is better for workers, employers and Britain's public health.” In a joint open letter, dozens of ...
Access to Work Scheme Owes Businesses Thousands
15 April 2025 | News
... Disabled people say they are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds by the Government, and fear they may have to ... said it had already been forced to shut down in part due to problems with the programme. Access to Work can pay ... all with disabilities," she says. "When the issues around work experience changed in the last few ...
80% of Disabled college children infected with contaminated blood died, Inquiry hears
23 June 2021 | News
A public Inquiry has heard how nearly 100 pupils at a specialist school for Disabled ... children were infected with contaminated blood in the 1970s and 1980s. Former pupil Gary Webster is one of 89 pupils ...
PIP fails to meet needs of people with ME in Scotland
06 March 2016 | News
A new report from Action for M.E. highlights how Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is failing to meet the support needs of people with M.E. in Scotland. view report The report finds M.E./CFS journeys through the PIP have the following problems: key stages of the PIP claim process are not fully ...
Government releases ‘shocking’ new figures on transport hate crime
30 March 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK is calling a meeting of key people in the rail industry after the ... transport hate crime data. The data shows that between 2014 and 2016, the numbers of disability related hate crime incidents in England reported to the British Transport Police decreased by ...
ESA claimants owed up to £500 million due to DWP error
19 November 2017 | News
Some Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants were underpaid up to a ... million between 2011/12 and 2014/15 due to DWP error, according to the BBC. The BBC understands that assessors wrongly ... it says it is still trying to understand the scale of the problems with ESA, which is paid to about 2.5 million people ...
First independent review of PIP
09 April 2014 | News
Paul Gray CB has today been appointed to carry out the first Independent Review of the ... will examine how the assessment process is operating in its early stages. Paul Gray will present his report to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions before the end of 2014. View written ...
DR UK now stock Phone and Tablet Grip Rings
31 January 2017 | News
Have problems holding or gripping a mobile phone? We now stock grip rings ... to any sleeve or cover. It has full 360 degree rotation and can be used to stand up the smart device on a level surface. You can use the ...