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We one of the UK’s leading Disabled People's Organisation run by and for Disabled people, working for justice and equality for all.

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💥30 years since the Disability Discrimination Act... what can we learn, and what next?

Thank you to all who attended our conference last night and to our fantastic panel of Disabled activists.

📺Missed it? Worry not, you can watch it back here now!
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30 Years Since the Disability Discrimination Act, What Next? Disability Rights UK's Conference 2025
YouTube video by DisabilityRightsUK1
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November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Every budget from the past two decades has followed the same formula: more money for weapons, more tax cuts for corporations and yet ordinary people are told we have to tighten our belts and face cuts in our community.

DR UK for @opendemocracy.net 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rachel-re...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🗣️“There is an era of sickness that is caused by political choices – lots of us are getting more ill because of how bad work or housing conditions are, or how overstretched health services are. Yet the focus is so-called fraud.”

DR UK's Mikey Erhardt in @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
What will Rachel Reeves' 'benefit fraud crackdown' mean for you?
Rachel Reeves wants to recoup £1.2 billion from a benefit fraud crackdown. Could it make life 'much more stressful' for benefit claimants?
www.bigissue.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🚨Our statement on #Budget2026

Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Chancellor says their Universal Credit reforms will put 15,000 into work. She conveniently fails to mention that these cuts will put 100,000 into poverty #Budget2026

Source👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/governm...
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🚨#Budget2026 NEWS🚨

Despite the Government planning to scrap the Work Capability Assessment, they've committed themselves to enforcing more punitive WCA assessments in the mean time.

Even by their own logic, how does this make any sense?
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🚨#Budget NEWS🚨

We should be celebrating the end to the two-child benefit cap, but it still feels like just a drop in the ocean when the Government has the power to end all cuts and invest fully in our public services. It's a start, and we need more.
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
To put that these Motability cuts into perspective...

It will save around £300 million.

Latest figures show the DWP has spent over £400 million fighting people on PIP appeals.

Scrap policies that punish Disabled people & stop pretending it's about economic efficiency! #Budget
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨#Budget NEWS 🚨

Motability scheme has been changed to make it less supportive and more like commercial leasing.

In other words, the right-wing politicians and media say jump, the Labour Government says how high?
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🚨NEWS🚨

As part of the ongoing Covid-19 Inquiry, we criticised the Government’s pandemic financial measures for failing to redistribute to those most in need, and for even “actively excluding” Disabled people altogether in some cases.

Press release👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/covid-i...
Covid Inquiry - Module 9: Disabled People “Excluded by Design” from
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November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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It was super to chat with Dan White of @disrightsuk.bsky.social for our 'Disability & Climate: In Conversation With' session yesterday! Recording, transcript & links now up online! sensing-climate.com/events/dan-w...
In conversation with… Dan White — Sensing Climate
An excellent session with Dan White, policy and campaigns officer at Disability Rights UK, leading a coalition of global disability climate activists to respond to the climate crisis…
sensing-climate.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

UK Covid-19 Inquiry report has just been released - it details the damning failure to protect Disabled people as “too little, too late”, mentioning government's “remarkable” failure to anticipate and plan an effective response

More👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/uk-covi...
UK Covid-19 Inquiry Report Details Damning Failure to Protect
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November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Disability Rights UK have written to the Chancellor before the upcoming budget, urging for an end to cuts and immediate investment in our public services.

Read the full letter below 👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
Disability Rights UK's Writes to Chancellor Before Upcoming Budget
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November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Tomorrow, the Covid-19 Inquiry will release a report on the decision-making and political governance during the pandemic. This will be of keen interest to the DPOs who took part in the inquiry as core participants

Full press release 👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/uk-covi...
UK Covid-19 Inquiry to Release Report on Decision-Making and
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November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
💥Our newsletter for DPO sector workers is dropping next week!

It comes out on the last Monday of every month - make sure you're subscribed to receive all the upcoming events, funding opportunities & news in your inbox!

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November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📣Special DISCOUNT on our Disability Rights Handbook!

⏰For a limited time only, get 20% off our Handbook with discount code: WINTER20

This is our 50th Handbook edition - we have spent half a century helping you make a successful claim!

Discount here👇
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025-2026
The handbook provides in-depth information and invaluable guidance on the benefits system and social care services. Full of tools and tactics to help you make a successful claim. Your right to benefit...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎨Access to creative spaces is a right not a privilege!

🛠️Make it Together, a pilot project we've been leading on, used your input to co-produce a Toolkit to help local creative groups make their spaces more accessible.

Save the date! More info⬇️ www.disabilityrightsuk.org/make-it-toge...
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
📚Event: UK Disability History Month 2025 Launch!

📅November 20th
⏰6:30 - 8pm
💻Online

With speakers from across the disability activism sphere - take a look and sign up 👇https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukdhm-2025-launch-live-tickets-1964996628813?aff=oddtdtcreator
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚨Liz Carr's evidence against the Assisted Dying Bill

"Once [Assisted Suicide] becomes a medical treatment, then that’s when it terrifies me, because it happens behind closed doors and is based on medical subjectivity"

More from @johnpring.bsky.social 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/health-and-c...
Health and care funding crisis will create pressure to choose assisted suicide, MPs and peers are told
Many terminally-ill people would feel “duress” and “pressure” to choose an assisted suicide if it is legalised, because of the lack of funding for the NHS, palliative care and social care services,…
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November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🗣️“Cutting support does not lead to people getting work. Those of us pushed into work by cuts will end up in precarious jobs, we will be there for a few months before the work has made us even sicker.”

DR UK campaign Mikey quoted in @theipaper.com today 👇
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
The jobs disabled people are pushed towards - and what they really need
Campaigners warn the Government's approach risks trapping disabled people in unsuitable roles
inews.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Benefit cuts and caps are a choice - and the Government can choose to remove them in their upcoming budget.

We support the signals the two-child benefit cap may be scrapped - and why stop there?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget
Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🚨Calling all DPOs🚨

Tomorrow, the Joint Committee on Human Rights will take evidence on the implications of the Assisted Dying Bill. No DPO has been invited to give evidence.

SIGN our open letter (DM us or reply under this post)👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dpo-ope...
DPO Open Letter on the Terminally Ill Adults Bill: Add Your Signature!
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November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
📢Cut sanctions not benefits: Budget day of action!

Join Unite Community to protest the benefit sanctions that are pushing people further into poverty.

📅Wednesday 26th November
🕛12 noon
📍Parliament - College Green, London, SW1

More info👇 www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🚨NEWS🚨
Disabled Students Still Face Major Barriers in Higher Education, Report Finds

"This report calls for a move away from reactive patchwork solutions towards a whole-institution approach where accessibility and inclusion are built-in, not bolted on"
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
Disabled Students Still Face Major Barriers in Higher Education, New
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November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
🚨NEWS🚨

Covid Inquiry Learns That Flawed Systems Led to Unjust Harms for Disabled Children

"What happened during Covid-19 to children and young people was unjust, largely inevitable under the current systems and yet there is no plan for reform"

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/covid-i...
Covid Inquiry Learns That Flawed Systems Led to Unjust Harms for
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November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM