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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 ...
Digital Content Officer
07 February 2023 | Opportunity
We are looking for a creative, enthusiastic, and collaborative ... work collectively, as well as work on initiative, to solve problems and create an impact for the benefit of disabled ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bedroom tax human rights appeal fails
20 February 2014 | News
... High Court decision had accepted that the bedroom tax in relation to adults was discriminatory, but that this was objectively and reasonably justified and therefore lawful because discretionary payments are ...
Over half of disabled people using social care can’t get support to live independently
11 November 2015 | News
... Scope has published new research that aims to understand how social care affects younger disabled people and the impact of the funding crisis. The charity spoke to 500 disabled people aged ...
Government extends removal of rights in last-minute SEND school guidance
31 May 2020 | News
The government is treating children with SEND as an afterthought in its education policies, education specialists and charities are warning. DR UK’s Head of Policy, Fazilet ... Care Plans being classed as ‘vulnerable’, despite nearly 50 DPOs demanding clarity in a letter sent last week , ...
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 ...
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 ...