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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 ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group respond to the PM Rishi Sunak
19 April 2024 | News
Today the PM Rishi Sunak stood in front of an assembled audience and proceeded yet again to demonise Disabled people and those with long-term health conditions, by announcing ...
DWP destroyed reports into claimants who committed suicide after their benefits were stopped
26 February 2020 | News
The DWP has been accused of “a cover-up” after destroying reports into suicides linked to benefits being stopped, ... requirement to destroy the reports by any particular date and that a “public interest” exemption could have been ... Commons as she read out a list of 24 people who died after problems with their benefits. On the 69 DWP reviews since ...
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 ...
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 ...
Government in court over disability benefit changes
08 July 2014 | News
Court proceedings will begin in Birmingham today to determine whether the ... UK, campaigning for a fairer welfare system – has branded the change “life shattering” for disabled people. ...
DRUK AGM and Conference set for 20 November, London
28 October 2019 | News
DRUK Chief Executive Kamran Mallick invites all members to attend the Disability Rights UK AGM and Conference on Wednesday 20 November at Resource for ... attending the AGM, asking questions and voting on the issues outlined on the AGM agenda. Members have been ...
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 ...
Autumn statement 2016 brings little joy for disabled people
22 November 2016 | News
... cuts this parliament but fails to address proposed ESA cuts and social care crisis. Disability Rights UK is disappointed at the Government’s failure to heed last week’s ... Tax-Free Childcare will be introduced gradually from early 2017, with roll out beginning upon completion of the ...
Most councils will not ringfence ILF resources
06 August 2014 | News
Analysis of FOI (freedom of information) requests to local authorities in England on the transfer of the independent living fund ... of Adult Social Services (ADASS). Disability Rights UK: Issues of Concern Only 10 local authorities are saying that ...