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DR UK in the Mirror: The Queue, Rosie Jones, Sofie Hagen, and the Square Pegs Singers
22 September 2022 | News
Anna Morell road tested the Lying in State accessible queue in the Mirror last week. And you can read her latest Dis Life column about the difference between disability equity and disability equality; why Rosie Jones and Sofie Hagen ...
People, Not Tick Boxes: Mind calls for rebuild of the disability benefits system
18 October 2020 | News
The mental health charity Mind has published a report that sets out what it has heard from hundreds of people with mental health problems, and sets out a case for five changes that would make sure ...
Thousands of Disabled people disenfranchised by the introduction of voter ID
04 May 2023 | News
... 85,000 people have applied for a free voter ID certificate in time for the May Local Elections, despite the Electoral ... at the local elections taking place in some areas of England on Thursday 4 May 2023. It will then apply to UK ... DR UK Policy and Campaigns Officer, said "Disenfranchising nearly 2 million voters across the UK is a completely ...
Scope offers four strategies to reduce the Disability Price Tag
13 March 2019 | News
... for 2019, reveals the extra costs faced by disabled people and families with disabled children. Read The Disability Price Tag Key findings for disabled people: On average disabled people face ... can be more effectively targeted at disabled people. Early Intervention and Family Resilience fund Set up an ...
Delegation to meet Anne McGuire
05 September 2013 | News
A delegation of disabled people and allies will be meeting Anne McGuire, Shadow Minister, on 10 September. This meeting came about because both she and the Minister failed to attend National Disabilities ...
DR UK says scrap DWP plans to use AI to scan benefit claimants bank accounts
14 March 2024 | News
Disability Rights UK has joined over 40 other organisations in writing to Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology and Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride to ... for Work and Pensions' (DWP) history of data security issues. The Information Commissioner has stated that he does ...
Making mental health matter more
19 January 2014 | News
Today the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg addressed a conference which brought together mental health experts, charities and users of mental health services to talk about how mental ... aim to make the system fairer for people with mental health problems. Today, the research institute RAND Europe has ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group statement on Modernising Support for Independent Living: The Health and Disability Green Paper.
30 April 2024 | News
Yesterday, Mel Stride MP, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, announced plans to reform the benefits system which has now been set out in a paper entitled Modernising Support for Independent ... support with the cost of living. The DWP's own data clearly shows the extent to which disabled households were ...
MPs launch public survey and new inquiry asking “How effective have cost of living support payments been?”
05 April 2023 | News
As part of its new inquiry – “Are cost of living support payments reaching everyone in need of help?” – the Work and Pensions Committee of MPs has launched a survey seeking ... from those in receipt of cost of living support payments and those who think they should have been in receipt of such ...
VODG raises concerns as HMRC "jumps the gun" on sleep in payments
19 August 2018 | News
Following the Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake Court of Appeal judgement on sleep in payments VODG, and wider sector bodies, have called on government to make a decision and to be clear about what changes it is proposing ahead of ...