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DR UK submits evidence to review of carers allowance
13 March 2025 | News
Last year, Government announced a review to look at why and how unpaid carers, in receipt of carers allowance, were hit with demands to pay ... in overpayments to DWP. Government figures suggest that nearly 100,000 unpaid carers across the UK are still repaying ...
Public Reject Benefit Cuts and Believe They Will Increase Pressure on NHS, New Polling Finds
26 June 2025 | News
New polling, undertaken by More in Common in collaboration with Disability Rights UK and Get Yourself Active, finds that only 27% of the public ... they would be less active upon losing their payments. Nearly half of benefits recipients (45%) expect to be less ...
DR UK letter to Matt Hancock: Yew Tree hospital abuse
05 October 2020 | News
... MP 5th October 2020 Department of Health & Social Care Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries Unit 39 Victoria Street London, SW1H ... to discuss the above proposal and look forward to your early response. Yours Sincerely Kamran Mallick Chief ...
Social security and tax reforms have hit disabled people in Scotland the hardest says EHRC
20 March 2019 | News
The combined impact of tax and social security reforms since 2010 “has hit the poorest households in Scotland hardest”, according to new research from the Equality ...
Work and Pensions Secretary told to urgently increase the financial support paid to unpaid carers
01 July 2020 | News
Carers UK and ninety two other charities, including DR UK, have today written a joint letter to Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey calling for the urgent ...
£30 week cut to ESA intolerable says Disability Rights UK
16 November 2016 | News
Commenting on the debate around cuts in Employment and Support ... pernicious cut will do anything to help disabled people get and keep jobs - in fact the opposite is true. The Government ...
Update on the Labour Market Status of Disabled People
20 May 2020 | News
... on the labour market status of disabled people , covering April 2013 up to March 2020. This post discusses those statistics, and concludes with some informed speculation on what the ... Young disabled people will face the double whammy of being early career workers during a recession, as well as the ...
DPOs call for reinstatement of infection control measures
15 July 2021 | News
A plethora of organisations, including DR UK, is calling on government to revise new ... the virus.” It continues: “Guidance on meeting family and friends has been updated, with a greater emphasis on ... attend school for their education, wellbeing, mental health and long-term development. Clinically extremely vulnerable ...
Liz Sayce at Refocus on Recovery 2014
02 June 2014 | News
The Refocus on Recovery 2014 international conference took place on 2 and 3 June 2014. The conference had four main themes: System ... models, such as recovery houses? On close examination, what problems emerge within the recovery movement? (Critical ...
Support for shielders from supermarkets
16 November 2020 | News
In the first week of November 2020, we asked Aldi, Asda, ... our stores, we are continuing to open our stores 30 minutes early Monday - Saturday within the UK for our elderly and ...