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Discretionary Payments funding reduced by £40m
01 February 2015 | News
Government funding for Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) for the tax year 2015 to 2016 will be £125 million Funding for 2014 to 2015 was £165 million, which means a ...
Blog of sponsored cycle ride
12 June 2013 | News
George Friend cycled 250 miles in 15 hours for Disability Rights UK Disability Rights UK would like to thank George Friend for his efforts in raising £2255 to help us with our work George Friend started riding to keep fit 2 years ago and decided to give himself greater motivation by doing... ...
DBC big benefits survey 2017
08 June 2017 | News
... The more responses they get, the more effective they can be in challenging government. So please spread the word and encourage clients to complete the survey - it takes between 10 and 30 minutes. DBC big benefits survey 2017 ...
Test Opportunity 01
05 December 2022 | Opportunity
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown ...
Irwin Mitchell No Limits! Photo winners
05 January 2015 | News
The winners of Irwin Mitchell's No Limits photography competition ... are attention-grabbing images that are positive, empowering and demonstrates that every disabled person has the right to live their life and work towards their goals without limitations. You can ...
Deaf pupils failed by education system five years running
17 August 2020 | News
The 50,000 deaf children in the UK are being failed by a ‘badly-designed, ... hearing children attain grade 4 (the old grade C) in maths and English. The figure for D/deaf children is under half. ... children should have parity of learning experience as standard throughout their lives at school.” Deaf pupils ...
Visualising Disability Benefit Appeals
19 August 2018 | News
... people won 67.7% of the appeals they brought to a tribunal. In his new blog , Evan Odell, our DRILL Research Programme Officer, examines the latest appeal trends using Government statistics. ... Rights UK. DRILL (Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning) is an innovative 5 year UK wide programme, ...
High street shops accessibility scandal
09 November 2014 | News
Two researchers, one blind, one a wheelchair-user, have been recording their ... UK said: “Firms are still breaking the law on access nearly 20 years after the first Disability Discrimination Act was passed in 1995 – and not only in London, it happens across the country . ...
Benefit rates for 2016-2017 published
25 November 2015 | News
The 2016-2017 rates for benefits, pensions, tax credits, tax and national insurance have now been published. To view them go to our ...
Object to coercion, support the right to work
10 March 2016 | News
In her latest blog, our CEO Liz Sayce calls for better ... disabled people as opposed to the ‘poison’ of coercion and sanctions. The blog draws on our own experience of working with DPOs and with the Work Foundation to identify good practice ...