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New legal judgment will help some D/deaf people to qualify for PIP
30 September 2020 | News
... will enable some D/deaf people to score more daily living activity points so as to help gain entitlement to PIP. ... each need to remove their hearing aids to take a shower and to take a bath. Each cannot without the aids hear a ... a bath or shower due to having to remove their hearing aids and being unable to hear an alarm. Regulation 4(2A) of the ...
Join the Intersectional DPO Forum: Building Inclusive Spaces Together!
15 August 2023 | News
Are you part of an Intersectional Disabled People's Organisation (DPO) or a ... aimed at creating a vibrant space for sharing, support, and collaboration. Event Details Date: 19th September Time: ... voices, share valuable insights, and collectively address issues that often go overlooked.Agenda: Introduction to the ...
Government to cut Rochdale housing association's £1m funding after Awaab Ishak's death
28 November 2022 | News
... from a respiratory condition caused by exposure to mould in his home. Awaab Ishak's father repeatedly raised the ... Coroner Joanne Kearsley said RBH were not "proactive" and asked: "How in the UK in 2020 does a two-year-old child ... Awaab's family said RBH needed to "stop being racist" and provide fair treatment to people moving to the UK. ...
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment: second independent review
29 March 2017 | News
The Department for Work and Pensions appointed Paul Gray CB to undertake the two reviews Personal ... mean it hasn't tackled some of the most fundamental problems with PIP; and some of its conclusions may not ...
Disability charities urge the Government to get a grip on PIP in new report
18 September 2017 | News
... shows the stressful assessment process for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is making people's conditions ... the findings of a survey of over 1,700 disabled people and people with long-term conditions who have made a PIP ... support this. Disability Rights UK is a member of the DBC and contributed to the report. The DBC recommends the ...
DR UK says the PM must stop scapegoating Disabled people for a failing economy
19 April 2024 | News
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today delivered a scathing attack on so-called ‘sick note culture’ and that a life on benefits had become a "lifestyle choice" ... by gullible GP’s. In reality, the rise in mental health problems is all too real. There are over 1.9 million people ...
DR UK responds to inclusive transport omissions in party manifestos
19 June 2024 | News
Disability Rights UK is disappointed that after considering all of the party manifestos, ... challenges that Disabled people face in using trains, buses and taxis. Following the election of the new UK Government, ... the case for wholesale improvements across public transport and will write to the next Minster for Transport lining out ...
Bereaved families write second letter to Secretary of State to demand public inquiry into benefit related deaths
24 October 2021 | News
In July 2021, five families who lost loved ones in cases ... wrote to the Secretary of State , Thérèse Coffey to demand a public inquiry into deaths and serious harm linked to the benefits system. Three months ...
Access to Work: Call to members
14 April 2015 | News
Disability Rights UK is calling on all members to demand expansion of Access to Work Disability Rights UK has ... to Long-term Unemployment - or Access to Work? , notes that problems with Access to Work are actually stopping people ... will commit to our demands it will raise the profile of the issues in all political parties. We have also sent it to ...
Our Voices - letter to Justin Tomlinson re National Disability Strategy
31 January 2021 | News
... Disabled People, Justin Tomlinson, setting out a number of problems with the engagement process for the National Disability Strategy and asking that the launch of the Strategy be postponed, ... its relevance to developing the Strategy and highlights issues which make it unusable and inaccessible to many ...