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Green Paper published – £5 billion cuts proposed by scrapping the WCA and changed PIP assessment
18 March 2025 | News
... Government has today published its Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper consultation. ... outlining the reforms in Parliament, Liz Kendall the Work and Pensions Minister said the Green Paper reforms would ...
DR UK Signs Open Letter On Wealth Inequality
16 October 2024 | News
... Foundation published a Wealth Gap Risk Register, an online evidence resource on the varied negative impacts of ... solutions to address the vast gap between the richest and poorest in the UK. The Wealth Gap Register explains the ... the evidence base for the impacts of the wealth gap as clearly and concisely as possible through a range of powerful ...
Disability equality e-learning for the House of Commons
17 March 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK and Wideaware Training are proud to announce that the House ... for all. We are also grateful to the Office for Disability Issues for their support with the initial development of the ... visually impaired visitors, people with mental health problems, what to say and what not to say, discrimination, ...
Criminal justice system failing disabled people, says EHRC
18 June 2020 | News
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published the full findings of its inquiry into whether the criminal justice ... of people with learning disabilities and mental health issues within the system that the government has failed to ...
Report into Magistrates’ Courts reveals shocking levels of inaccessibility for Disabled Magistrates
21 June 2023 | News
... Magistrates’ Association has published a new report revealing the shocking level of inaccessibility of Magistrates’ ... of policy, Fazilet Hadi, explain the results of the report and call for urgent action to remedy the everyday ... Actions need to be urgently taken to address these issues. Justice needs to be seen to be done, but the ...
MPs debate Universal Credit Roll-out
18 October 2017 | News
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth) (Lab) calls on the Government to pause the ... to pause the roll-out of universal credit while the issues associated with this key social security programme ... are doing something to right some of the Universal Credit problems highlighted. Commons speaker, John Bercow has said ...
Indignity of disabled man waiting 2 years for home adaptations
07 May 2018 | News
DR UK on BBC Hereford and Worcester radio. Stephen Sadler is one of many disabled people who are waiting for crucial adaptations to their property. Hereford ... it was so distressing to hear that even today we have these problems and that this is not an isolated case. It shows you ...
Long Covid and illness drives 400,000 more people from the workforce
04 May 2022 | News
A new Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) report warns that deep health inequalities and ineffective policies mean people are living shorter lives, with more years spent in poor health, and facing greater barriers to staying in, and thriving, in ...
Children with Special Education Needs and Disability Abandoned by Schools during Lockdown
28 July 2020 | News
Coronavirus and SEND Education: 75% of schools ignored Government risk assessment guidance during the lockdown. A new report shows the extent to which ... which showed a similar picture. Unfortunately, these problems are not over, some parents are now being told that ...
ESA claimants levels of food insecurity sharply increase during COVID-19 pandemic: new research report
11 October 2021 | News
... did not receive the £20 per week uplift claimants, and probably as a result, their levels of food insecurity have sharply increased during COVID-19 relative ... of food insecurity: any food insecurity, where the quality and variety of people’s diets were affected by lack of ...