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DWP response to Coronavirus inquiry inadequate says Work and Pension Committee Chair
07 September 2020 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee Chair, Stephen Timms MP, has ... DWP’s response to the Coronavirus outbreak for not addressing major points MPs raised. One recommendation of the ... If that’s the case, the Government should say so clearly, and explain why. Just as importantly, there seems to ...
DR UK submission on the Industrial strategy, sector deals and productivity inquiry
29 October 2018 | News
BEIS Select committee inquiry on the Industrial strategy, sector deals and productivity. Committee website DR UK submission to the ... committee inquiry on the Industrial strategy, sector deals and productivity DR UK submission on the Industrial ...
Our new CEO pledges better links with other DPOs and grassroots groups
20 July 2017 | News
Kamran Mallick, our new CEO, has pledged to do more to involve young disabled people in the organisation’s work. ... with other disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and grassroots campaigning groups. In his first major ... as well as committing to engaging with government on key issues affecting disabled people. Our new CEO pledges better ...
‘Blanket’ approaches to DNARs criticised in CQC report
18 March 2021 | News
... publication of the Care Quality Commission’s CQC report into the use of Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. The investigation was commissioned following concerns raised at the beginning of the pandemic around the use of ‘blanket’ DNARs (do not ...
Disabled People represented at COVID Public Inquiry
02 November 2022 | News
On Monday 31 October, the COVID Public Inquiry heard from lawyers, on the conduct and scope of module 2 of the Inquiry, which relates to ... people. It was asked that the Inquiry agree the list of key issues to be covered with core participants, to ensure that ...
Disabled Activists Deliver Book Exposing Deaths At Hands of DWP To Every Member of Parliament
02 September 2024 | News
... How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence exposes how the actions of the ... deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of Disabled people in the post-2010 austerity years. A crowdfunder set up by ... evidence-based, and relies on documents from the 1990s and early 2000s that have been unearthed from the National ...
Policy changes could bring more inclusive apprenticeships
18 July 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK has long worked for more inclusive apprenticeships – so that large numbers of ... apprenticeships that people will have good GCSEs in Maths and English (which some disabled people find it hard to ... secure, even though they would make excellent apprentices) and insufficient support for apprentice and employer. What ...
Financial Times published its first ever supplement on Disability and the workplace
13 May 2018 | News
... Rights UK are delighted to see our contact with FT advertising, editorial staff and management including John Ridding their CEO yield such ... FT securing the advertising revenue that will allow other issues such as on the purple pound to be explored in future ...
UN report on poverty made a lot of good points and was factually correct says DWP Senior Policy Director
18 June 2019 | News
... MPs that a highly-critical UN report on extreme poverty and human rights in the UK was “factually correct” and “made a lot of ... week that Professor Alston’s “really good points” on issues such as austerity and cuts to local government ...
New Kings Fund report highlights the crisis in social care
14 September 2016 | News
A new report by The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust shows a social care ... availability and quality of care is threatened by mounting problems in staff recruitment and retention, underpinned by ...