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Join DR UK in campaigning for PEEPs
18 August 2022 | News
As part of DR UK's ongoing campaigning on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans ... . Claddag have also published a summary of the main issues . The deadline to reply to the consultation is Sunday ... to answer the full survey. DR UK's response linked above, and Claddag's summary, are both available to use as a draft ...
Disabled people’s led organisations challenge government record
23 July 2020 | News
Disabled people’s led organisations from across England, including DR UK, have written to the Prime Minister ... experienced challenges in accessing health and social care, problems in buying food, digital exclusion and deterioration ... people led organisations have been drawing the serious issues facing disabled people to the attention of ...
Get Involved in Our Sounding Board Group!
25 September 2024 | News
Do you have an interest in getting active, or have you experienced barriers ... barriers that Disabled people are facing in the sport and physical activity sector. The aim of the group is to gain further insight into some of the issues Disabled people are facing at a local level, which ...
Council to pay £7000 compensation for inadequate assessment
20 January 2016 | News
... Bedfordshire Council has to pay a woman £7,000 after inadequate assessments left her without proper care for more ... about the way the council administered her direct payments and that it did not follow its complaints procedure when ... that this caused her significant avoidable distress, and meant she has not had as much care as she should have ...
Polly's Story - Disability Rights UK Volunteer, Paralympian, and Masters Student
05 December 2024 | News
Polly, Disability Rights UK Volunteer, Paralympian, and Masters Student, writes a letter to her younger self ... about the lessons she wished she knew sooner. Polly explains how disability is ultimately a social construct, and ... week, and you start having to think and talk about these issues publically. You realise they do matter even, if you ...
Report on Ongoing Impact of Pandemic on Immunocompromised People Launched in Parliament
08 December 2023 | News
This week, the APPG on Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics, the Forgotten Lives UK patient group and the National Clinical expert group released their report into the ... and have either developed or compounded mental health issues, is sadly unsurprising, as we have an overwhelming ...
DR UK helps launch new briefing on disability and climate change
21 June 2023 | News
This week sees the release of a long-awaited briefing around Disability and climate change from the New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) a ... around the world and here in the UK. As with so many other issues, we, Disabled people must come together to fight for ...
DR UK responds to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Review
26 July 2022 | News
... right time". Our full consultation response can be found in the attachments below. The SEND green paper recognised ... likely to hold any qualifications than non-Disabled people and Disabled pupils facing disproportionate levels of bullying and exclusions in school. The government did not recognise ...
Ideal for All faces closure
29 July 2013 | News
“Cuts in support services to disabled people will increase hospital admissions and visits to GP surgeries in Sandwell” says Vice Chair of ... charity in Sandwell, could be forced to close its doors as early as October 2013 to disabled people due to severe cuts ...
Benefits system errors ‘predominant factor’ in Disabled claimant’s death
26 January 2021 | News
Errors in the benefits system were the ‘predominant factor’ in ... Philippa’s death, Assistant Coroner Gordon Clow noted problems including the fact she was told to go for an assessment despite being eligible for a home assessment, and the lack of control staff had to be able to change ...