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Lu's Story - Student, challenging University Accommodation decisions
06 March 2025 | News
Lu, student and helpline caller, tells her story of when she challenged ... in a news article about disabled students having similar problems to me. I argued that I shouldn’t have to pay any ...
Disability Rights UK seeks industrial strategy that includes disabled people
02 March 2017 | News
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has issued a ... There are 38 questions in the industrial strategy and clearly many are outside of the scope of our charity such as ...
‘Isolated, alone, forgotten’ – DR UK shielding survey reveals huge sense of lack of safety and neglect
11 June 2020 | News
Eighty-five per cent of people shielding feel unsafe going outside since the relaxing of lockdown ... of people reported they trusted the government’s advice, and only 13% thought the government was following the best ... “People with autism, sight impairments and mobility issues have all been saying they cannot safely go out and ...
Spotlighting Intersectional Events: Speedfriending Social for POC Neurodivergent Women and Queers
12 June 2025 | Event
... for Black neurodivergent women & LGBTQ+ people, is launching a speed friending event "This event, modelled after ... a chilled, low-pressure environment. Through guided prompts and playful conversation, participants can make new friends and find solidarity. It’s an uplifting space that nurtures ...
DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’
27 June 2022 | News
The Government’s “failing” and “pseudo-scientific” benefits assessment system is increasing disability poverty and worsening claimants’ mental health, the Disability ...
I Can Make It has an exciting Wednesday in Manchester and London
06 April 2017 | News
Another week, another set of meetings for I Can Make It. All happening on one day; Wednesday ... involving I Can Make It Champions, along with our Policy and Development Manager Philip Connolly. In the morning Philip and three of our champions: Will Case, Andrew Tarpey and ...
Govt responds to Work and Pensions Committee Welfare to Work Inquiry
07 January 2016 | News
The Government has responded the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into DWP’s contracted welfare-to-work provision The Department’s main contracts (Work Programme and Work Choice) will expire in 2017, and DWP will begin a ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence publishes latest impact report
22 July 2019 | News
The report shows how NICE guidance might be making a difference in priority areas of adult social care. ... that is available, alongside information about outcomes and examples of their guidance being used in practice. It ... . Professor Gillian Leng, NICE’s Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Health and Social Care, has also published a ...
CQC review of how NHS trusts investigate and learn from deaths
24 July 2016 | News
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is looking at how NHS acute, community healthcare and mental health trusts investigate deaths and learn from their investigations. They also want to ...
Request your personal information from the Department for Work and Pensions
28 May 2018 | News
You have the right to get a copy of the information that is held about you. This is known as 'right ... need a record of the amounts (rates) of benefit you get and the dates you’re paid need a copy of your last fit ... they’ve sent you. If you’re claiming Universal Credit and have an online account, you can request this information ...