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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 ...
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 ...
MPs warn that social care vision needs cash
08 August 2022 | News
... have urged the Government to provide significant extra funding for the “ravaged social care sector” this year and in the longer term. The cross-party Levelling Up, ... relates to immediate cost pressures or on wider structural issues in the sector, the fundamental problem is that there ...
Upper Tribunal rules DWP wrong to deny appeals over refused benefits
02 October 2017 | News
... The DWP were challenged by the Child Poverty Action Group and two claimants with serious mental health problems who were refused ESA and then failed to ask for a ... many claimants will be vulnerable for reasons including issues relating to their mental health or learning ...
The Impact Of National Insurance Contribution Rise On Social Care
12 November 2024 | News
... expert, has written about the potential impact of rising National Insurance contributions for Disabled people who ... contributions will have a huge impact on Disabled people and PA's and the social care system. Factors such as rise in tax and NI and inflation only exacerbate the financial problems that Disabled people already experience in their ...
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 ...
Government’s independent reviewer did not know of coroner’s report blaming suicide on the WCA
09 November 2015 | News
Ministers appear to have failed to hand a 2010 coroner’s ... health conditions – to the expert they commissioned to independently review the test An investigation by ... by ITN News at 10 last night) suggests that Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and Employment ...
Lords vote for Tax Credit cut delay and compensation for losers
26 October 2015 | News
... of 17 The Hollis amendment proposed that: “this House declines to consider the draft Regulations laid before the House ... for a minimum of three years for all low-income families and individuals currently receiving tax credits before 5 ... protection in the autumn statement and the constitutional issues surrounding the Lords vote “Tonight unelected ...
Human Rights Convention and Court reform
14 January 2014 | News
... of the system of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. The Council of ... of the European Court of Human Rights (DH-GDR) is holding an open call for information, proposals and views on the issue of the longer-term reform of the ...
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 ...