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Inspiring disabled staff groups to express and address local needs
11 October 2016 | News
In this blog, Bernd Sass considers ways disabled staff can ... a local framework. Read blog Bernd coordinates our Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, which ... sector together with the health system, to improve services and promote well-being for all. It does this by: ...
European Committee finds our sickness and unemployment benefit levels inadequate
24 January 2018 | News
... published its annual conclusions on health, social security and social protection for 2017. View conclusions These ... conclusions concerned the articles of the Charter relating to the thematic group “Health, social security and social protection”: the right to safe and healthy ...
DR UK evidence to Work and Pensions Committee PIP inquiry
27 April 2017 | News
... sought evidence from a range of organisations following a one-off evidence session on the PIP application, assessment and appeals process. It also received evidence from ... the inquiry View Disability Rights UK response to the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry on Personal Independence ...
How I left the nest and moved into my lifetime home
13 September 2018 | News
DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick talks about how he left home and the current shortage of suitable accessible housing. Read Kamran’s article in 24 Housing Britain’s housing crisis: Kamran Mallick and others offer their solutions Kamran left home when he ...
DRUK and YEG call on government to increase youth employment
23 September 2020 | News
... must act now to avoid a record number of young people ending up out of education, employment or training from ... in supporting young people during the economic crisis and beyond. DR UK Disability and Skills Manager Rabia Lemahieu said: “Young people ...
New Scottish Independent Living Fund Working Group Report and Recommendations
11 July 2017 | News
This paper is the final report of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) Working ... the policy options for opening the ILF to new users in Scotland, with new funding of £5 million committed from Scottish ... Thursday the 29 June 2017, the Minister for Public Health and Sport, Aileen Campbell MSP, announced details of the New ...
Visualise to hold Visual Awareness Training in Cardiff and London
24 July 2017 | News
This Visual Impairment Awareness Training raises your awareness of visual impairments and how to effectively support your customers and/or colleagues. London - Wed 20 September 2017 Time: ...
Benefits must rise by inflation, says DR UK
04 October 2022 | News
... Government’s failure to confirm its previous assurance to increase benefits in line with inflation from April 2023 is ... subject to the review by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, benefits will be uprated by this September’s ... disability living allowance, personal independence payment, and attendance allowance being increased annually by ...
Disability Rights UK attends Climate Change event in London
26 April 2023 | News
Last week DR UK attended the Extinction Rebellion event in London called the Big one. The ... who descended on Parliament square to talk, march, & to demand change when it comes to policy and action on climate ... acknowledged that to date, very little work has explored issues around people with disabilities and ...
Student Days - A Memoir Piece on Personal Assistants
16 January 2024 | News
One of DR UK's Trustees, Madeline Close, shares with us a chatty and touching piece of writing reminiscing on her student ... get ready for a morning lecture. And when you are in your early twenties, who wants to live in a care home with ...