Mental Health Taskforce announced
1 December 2014
On 24 November 2014, the Deputy Prime Minister announced that he will establish and chair a new Mental Health Taskforce.
On 24 November 2014, the Deputy Prime Minister announced that he will establish and chair a new Mental Health Taskforce.
On 18 October 2014, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner published ‘”They still need to listen more” A report about disabled children and young people’s rights in England’.
Rachel Krys blogs about how the debate is being framed around accessible transport: I was a pushchair user for a few years, between 2005 and
A blog by Abigail McKnight and Tania Burchardt says that ‘Lord Freud’s widely-reported recent remark that some disabled people are not “worth” the National Minimum Wage (NMW) is not supported by CASE research’.
The vision of the Accessible Britain Challenge is for communities to become more inclusive and accessible by engaging and working with disabled people to remove barriers that get in the way of them being full and active contributors in their community.
In September 2014 the Government published updates on its disability strategy and documents showing the progress that has been made.
The Rights at Work campaign aims to raise awareness amongst people with cancer of their rights in the workplace.
This site provides links to websites that help young disabled people find and stay in work.
‘Disability: A Research Study on Unconscious Bias’ was published in July 2014 by the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion.
‘Dignity and Opportunity for All: Securing the rights of disabled people in the austerity era’ was published by Just Fair in July 2014.