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DR UK welcomes new Disability Minister
11 May 2015 | News
Disability Rights welcomes the appointment of a Minister for Disabled People and we look forward to meeting the new minister Justin ... his earliest convenience The Minister will be part of DWP and in turn a key department in delivering on the ...
Why horses are my therapy
09 May 2017 | News
... Blog comes from Britta Francis. Read blog Despite having complex medical problems, I have ridden a horse for most of my life. My spine has grown abnormally and twisted itself, which has resulted in my having multiple ...
DR UK CEO speaks at Naidex
24 April 2018 | News
Naidex, Birmingham NEC, 25-26 April 2018. Naidex is Europe’s largest free disability, rehabilitation and independent living event, attracting 12,000 visitors ... Kamran Mallick, was part of a panel discussion on the problems, best practice, and opportunities of employing ...
Accessible toilet access varies wildly across UK
07 September 2021 | News
There is a vast disparity across the UK when it comes to finding an accessible toilet, research by health and wellness testing company Check My Body Health has found. ... for those struggling with pain-related to wider digestive problems, such as IBS. DR UK’s Head of Policy Fazilet Hadi ...
Psychiatric asbos don’t work says one of their chief advocates
14 April 2013 | News
... Tom Burns says Community Treatment Orders 'don't work' and are unnecessary This is what people with lived experience of mental health problems have been saying from the outset. Right now we have ever growing use of ...
Liz Sayce speaks at Royal College of Psychiatrists
17 October 2013 | News
Liz Sayce argues anti-stigma work in mental health needs to be rooted in our rights. Liz, ... against anti-stigma messages that describe mental health problems as ‘an illness like any other’. A growing body ... less – likely to think those of us affected are dangerous and unpredictable. As a result they want to keep their ...
DR UK condemns idea of cutting ESA
29 October 2014 | News
Disabled people are already twice as likely to live in poverty as non-disabled people. Reducing benefits would be cruel and unfair. The reason savings have not been made from the introduction of the new assessments and benefits regime is because the programmes to support ...
Our response to WCA 4th review
25 September 2013 | News
The Department for Work and Pensions has appointed Dr Paul Litchfield to undertake the fourth independent ... that mental health conditions are considered in the WCA; and the biopsychosocial factors that influence capability ...
Universal Credit budget reforms: too little to late
30 October 2018 | News
... Budget 2018 reforms, Disability Rights UK is still calling for a halt to the new benefit’s roll out. The following measures were announced in the Budget and are clearly will be an improvement on the current ... do not remove Universal Credit’s delivery and design problems. Within the last week, the Public Accounts ...
Apprenticeship reforms are failing to deliver
10 June 2019 | News
According a recent Public Accounts Committee report on ... fell by 26% after the apprenticeship levy was introduced and, although the level is now recovering, the government ... is to draw apprentices from a wider range of social and demographic groups. However, the Department’s targets ...