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We're Hiring - Trustee Opportunity
01 July 2024 | News
... lived experiences including: learning difficulties, mental health conditions, neurodiversity, deafness, hearing ... visual impairments, physical impairments and long-term health conditions. Please see the attached documents for ...
How Did We Get Involved In The Disability Rights Movement? DR UK Staff Blog Series! Part One
31 July 2024 | News
... of incarceration as a teenager at the hands of mental health services. It was through this that he learnt the history of the Mental Patients Union, Mental Health Resistance Network, Reclaim Bedlam and East End ...
DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into Disabled man’s death
03 January 2025 | News
... (ESA) was withdrawn. He was suffering severe mental health problems and weighed four-and-a-half stone (30kg) ... failed to take reasonable steps to obtain evidence that his health had improved before removing his only source of ...
Help Us Make a Real Difference at Disability Rights UK
25 March 2025 | News
... cultural and ethnic backgrounds Those with mental health challenges or learning disabilities People who ... or isolated areas People with a range of impairments or health conditions Any other individuals with lived ...
MPs Call for DWP To Have Statutory Duty to Safeguard Claimants
20 May 2025 | News
... everyone in the department. In addition, the potential health impacts of all new significant policies must be ... this cultural change, the report concluded. Currently, such health assessments are not carried out consistently on all ...
82 benefit claimants have died after some alleged DWP activity such as termination of benefits, BBC finds
09 May 2021 | News
... such as termination of benefits. It says that mental health vulnerabilities were a contributing factor in 35 of ... 2019 Justin Tomlinson MP, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work said there had been 84 held since 2015 and a ...
Covid Inquiry will consider impact of pandemic on Disabled people
17 July 2022 | News
... a supply of PPE, how to remain supported by my personal healthcare team if I needed to go to hospital, and whether ... lives should be prioritised. People with impairments and health conditions were expendable. Now, as we move into a ...
Nearly Half of Families With A Disabled Child Living in Poverty
30 January 2024 | News
... driver of food bank use – Essentials Guarantee needed Health of Millions at risk as Universal Credit Falls So Far ...
Assessing the Government’s Disability Strategy
11 August 2021 | News
... Strategy is silent on benefits, but the Green Paper on Health and Disability floats ideas on how benefits for ... desire through the SEND Review to move away from Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). However frustrating the ...
DR UK AGM and Conference report 2016
07 November 2016 | News
... support to do it. View Gary's presentation How the Mental Health Act was used over 62,000 times last year to ... people with dementia and also people living with mental health issues often have to live with people they don’t ...