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GPs to prescribe sport and leisure activities to improve patient wellbeing
26 July 2018 | News
The government is to invest nearly £4.5 million to fund ‘social prescribing’ schemes throughout England using the Health and Wellbeing Fund. Read more The ... be socially isolated, for example because of mental health problems or learning difficulties providing support for ...
Disability Rights UK submission to the Taylor Review
16 May 2017 | News
... impairment, about 12 million people in the UK. Our policy and development manager Philip Connolly also provides the ... and supported MPs and peers to examine many of the issues connected to the Taylor inquiry - in respect of ... unemployed people being only individuals with individual problems rather than members of a community with the ...
OECD: Reducing inequality boosts economic growth
10 December 2014 | News
Trends in income inequality and its impact on economic growth A new ... “Countries that promote equal opportunity for all from an early age are those that will grow and prosper.” In Italy, ...
DR UK CEO Kamran Malick's Global Summit Speech
23 July 2018 | News
... for Global Disability Summit plenary session on Dignity and Respect for All: creating new norms, tackling stigma and ensuring ... alliances beyond the disability movement is vital on issues like social care & tackling poverty. This is not just ...
Vacancy for Chair of The Pensions Ombudsman
08 November 2024 | News
... (NDPB) sponsored by the DWP. The Pensions Ombudsman is an independent statutory Commissioner appointed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The Ombudsman can investigate complaints of ... in the first instance the organisation will try to resolve issues and disputes informally. The TPO Board was ...
HCPC to investigate bogus DWP psychometric tests
19 June 2013 | News
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), is investigating a complaint against the DWP, for using ... have been raised about the validation of these tests and their actual worth in helping jobseekers. Disability ...
DR UK CEO in the Disability Power 100 list
17 October 2018 | News
... are very pleased to see that our own CEO Kamran Mallick is included in the the list. Kamran said: “I want disabled young people to dream big and to have the support from society to make those dreams ... who will be jointly presenting our Jack Ashley lecture early in 2019. See the full Disability Power 100 list DR UK ...
Disability Hate Crime Guidance Statement
28 February 2012 | News
Disability Rights UK has been contacted by many people interested in our hate crime guidance. We are very grateful ... Alliance, the National Centre for Independent Living and the Royal Association for Disability Rights. We also ... on the growth of negative press coverage of disability issues. Their report ‘Bad News for Disabled People’ is ...
Brexit: Should disabled people care?
04 October 2018 | News
You could be forgiven for wanting to skip this article. I’m sure you feel you’ve ... on in there a minute… Whether you voted leave or remain, and I suspect disabled people were pretty much reflective of ... Prosperity Fund instead although, of course, it is too early to see exactly what that might look like. On the ...
Disabled mum takes her own life after actions of DWP and Capita ‘magnified’ anxiety
05 June 2023 | News
... mother who took her own life had been left with stress and “debilitating anxiety” by the actions of the Department for Work and ... to her taking her own life, and highlighted 28 separate “problems” with the administration of the PIP system. ...