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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 13d

💥Jam-packed DPO newsletter going out on Monday!

Work for a DPO or user-led organisation? Sign up to our monthly DPO newsletter, which goes out on the last Monday of every month.

Sign-up here👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/sign-our-dpo...

Sign up for our DPO newsletter

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 13d

"Any restrictions to EHCPs and attacks on our rights will cut the few lifelines to support that currently exist. If the government’s priority is to support us into work, then targeting rights and blaming us won’t help. Increasing funding and tackling institutional ableism might."

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 13d

🚨NEWS🚨

Disabled children need support. The government must not restrict their rights - our education campaigner, Bethany Bale, wrote about the Government's upcoming SEND white paper and how the system needs complete overhaul.

Read👇
www.bigissue.com/opinion/chil...

Children with SEND need support, not restrictions to their rights

With the SEND white paper due to be published, Bethany Bale writes about what must change to ensure that children get the right support.

www.bigissue.com

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 14d

We have a benefits calculator with @turn2us_org so you can check what support you are eligible for that you might not be claiming right now.

Check it out 🧮https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/content/benefits-calculator

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 14d

🚨NEWS🚨

£24.1 billion in benefits will go unclaimed in 2025/26 says new Policy in Practice report. That is 12x the government's planned benefit cuts.

The highest unclaimed amounts are found in:
👉universal credit
👉council tax support
👉carer’s allowance

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/%C2%A32...

£24 billion of support is unclaimed: new “Missing Out” report

www.disabilityrightsuk.org

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 15d

Important opportunity for those with lived experience of mental ill-health or distress - be part of an organisation working for change! 💥

National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 20d

Join NSUN as a trustee, chair or treasurer!

This is an exciting time to help lead the only lived experience-led national mental health charity. If you’re interested in social justice and bringing a critical perspective to the mental health sector, apply by 27/10/25.

www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-is...

NSUN is recruiting: Trustees, including Chair and Treasurer

We are looking for trustees, including a Chair and Treasurer, to help lead the only lived experience-led national mental health charity.

www.nsun.org.uk

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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 20d

Join NSUN as a trustee, chair or treasurer!

This is an exciting time to help lead the only lived experience-led national mental health charity. If you’re interested in social justice and bringing a critical perspective to the mental health sector, apply by 27/10/25.

www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-is...

NSUN is recruiting: Trustees, including Chair and Treasurer

We are looking for trustees, including a Chair and Treasurer, to help lead the only lived experience-led national mental health charity.

www.nsun.org.uk

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 20d

🚨NEWS🚨

Disabled Victims Face Hurdles at Every Step of the Justice Process, finds new Victims Commissioner report

'Disabled victims report feeling dismissed, having their credibility questioned and offences recorded as less serious crimes'

Read more👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 21d

1 in 4 Disabled Londoners with housing access requirements live in completely inaccessible homes, according to
@inclusionlondon.bsky.social's research.

This must change. The Disabled Facilities Grant needs reform! Read our consultation response 👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...

Disabled Facilities Grant Consultation: Our Response with Inclusion

www.disabilityrightsuk.org

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 22d

🎨Access to arts should be a right, not a privilege. So why are so many Deaf & Disabled people locked out of creative spaces?

Make It Together wants to tackle this!

Join our online creative hangout centring Deaf & Disabled people and your experiences👇 www.creative-lives.org/Event/online...

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 26d

🚨NEWS🚨

"Labour government's housing policies will have ‘quite negligible’ impact on accessibility"

DR UK Policy Lead Mikey told the select committee of the 40 year waiting list for a wheelchair accessible home 🏠

Read more by @johnpring.bsky.social 👇

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labours-hous...

Labour’s housing policies will have ‘quite negligible’ impact on accessibility, MPs are told

Housing policies announced by the Labour government in its first year in power will have a “quite negligible” impact on improving accessibility and addressing disabled people’s housing needs, a dis…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · 27d

💸Cash4Clubs Funding available!

They aim to get small grants of £2,000 to sports clubs that need it, especially those working to engage adults from marginalised backgrounds, such as Disabled people. The funding is unrestricted!

Deadline: 8th Dec. 2025
sported.org.uk/cash4clubs/

Cash4Clubs – Sported working with Flutter to fund grassroots sport across the UK and Ireland - Sported

Cash4Clubs Since 2008, Flutter UKI has donated over £6.5million to community sports clubs through the Cash4Clubs programme, helping thousands of people across the UK and Ireland by ensuring they have ...

sported.org.uk

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 29d

🗣️"The waiting list for a new-build wheelchair accessible home is currently 40 years.

If you don't live in an accessible home as a Disabled person, it's a dangerous home, and a dangerous home you could be living in for 40 years."

DR UK's Mikey speaking to The Housing Select Committee 👇

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 29d

🏠"Without understanding your local needs, how can you ever build the right kind of homes to suit your local population?"

Mikey speaking to the Select Committee, stating the need for local authorities to hold housing developers to account 👇

LIVE: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 29d

"When we think about what Disabled people want and need out of housing in the UK at the moment, the thing I get told the most is: I want to be able to afford it."

🎙️Our Policy Lead, Mikey Erhardt, is currently speaking to the Housing Select Committee about housing conditions in England ⬇️

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · 29d

"Our government bears a fundamental duty to safeguard protected minorities and those at risk in our society. If there is even a hint of uncertainty regarding the potential ramifications of this legislation on their well-being, it cannot proceed." - Rachael Ross, founding member of the NDSPG

Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 29d

🚨NEWS🚨

As the Assisted Dying Bill faces its second reading in the House of Lords on Friday, we have signed The National Down Syndrome Policy Group's an open letter - peers must listen to Disabled people's concerns about the bill.

Read the letter here👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/assiste...

Assisted Dying Bill's Second Reading: House of Lords Must Respond to

www.disabilityrightsuk.org

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 29d

🚨NEWS🚨

As the Assisted Dying Bill faces its second reading in the House of Lords on Friday, we have signed The National Down Syndrome Policy Group's an open letter - peers must listen to Disabled people's concerns about the bill.

Read the letter here👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/assiste...

Assisted Dying Bill's Second Reading: House of Lords Must Respond to

www.disabilityrightsuk.org

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧠 Online training from Your Support Matters for employers who recruit a personal assistant!

💡 What makes a good employer?
💡 Equality, partnership and mutual respect in the workplace
💡 Legal responsibilities to employees

💻15th September + 22nd September, 13:00 - 17:30

yoursupportmatters.com/events

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Webinar: Disability Inclusion in Public Appointments

📅Wednesday 10th September
🕒3 - 4:15pm
💻Online

A conversation around representation in government public appointments.

Interested? More info and sign up here🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...

Disability Inclusion in Public Appointments

Explore challenges & opportunities around disability representation in public appointments.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

🎽The 2025 London Marathon only just ended and we already have a runner training for 2026!

Meet Sebastian, a composer for film and TV, who's choosing to fundraise for DR UK because of the importance of Disabled-led activism.

Read more and support him!💥

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/meet-dr...

Meet DR UK's First London Marathon 2026 Star, Sebastian!

www.disabilityrightsuk.org

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

🏠Accessible Homes Week Webinar!

Join Habinteg and CAE for this free webinar sharing the latest insights into England's plans for accessible homes - and a discussion about the inequality still rife in housing.

Sign up here👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forecast-f...

Forecast for accessible homes 2025: one decade on… milestone or millstone?

Join Habinteg and CAE for this free webinar sharing the latest insights into England's plans for accessible homes.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Aug 28

The government wants to scrap the work capability assessment (WCA), which will hit 600,000 Disabled people.

Why does this government have money for weapons and tax cuts for billionaires but not Disabled people on the breadline?
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

600,000 disabled people at risk of Labour's next round of benefit cuts

Campaigners have warned that nearly 600,000 disabled people could be at risk from the next round of the government’s benefit cuts.

www.bigissue.com

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Aug 28

📊SURVEY!

Have you used the Access to Work scheme over the past two years? The Disability Poverty Campaign Group is running a survey on your experiences of Access to Work and what support you've received.

Fill it in here! 👇
www.surveymonkey.com/r/CK7FPTW

Access to Work survey This survey aims to collect information from people using the scheme The questionnaire should be completed by people who have received assistance from the scheme. It covers dec...

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

www.surveymonkey.com

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣Why Disabled people's lived experience must be at the heart of welfare reform

"Reforms are being designed about us, not with us. They are shaped by people who rarely reflect the communities they legislate for" - DR UK CEO, Kamran Mallick

Read on 👇
www.caremanagementmatters.co.uk/feature/into...

Into Perspective: Why must disabled people's views be at the heart of welfare reform?

In this issue’s Into Perspective, CMM looks at why the lived experience of disabled people should be at the heart of welfare reform.

www.caremanagementmatters.co.uk

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Aug 26

The UK government will conduct a national test of the Emergency Alerts system on Sunday 7 September at 3pm.

Compatible mobile phones and tablets will receive an alert, which will sound like a loud siren and vibrate.

Find out more (Easy Read, BSL, audio) prepare.campaign.gov.uk/emergency-al...

Emergency Alerts Campaign Resources - Prepare

The UK government will be carrying out a national test of the Emergency Alerts system on Sunday 7 September at 3pm. We would greatly appreciate your support in raising awareness of the test across the...

prepare.campaign.gov.uk

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