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When Disabled people are repeatedly framed as a cost, it affects how society sees us. @Channel4's The Experiment confronts ableism, segregation and the consequences of devaluing Disabled lives.
Read a blog on the programme here:
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📢Physical activity is a right, not a risk. Join the #DismantlingTheActivityTrap conversation today.
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The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) has sent a letter to the Chancellor, John Healey, urging him to break the endless cycle of disability poverty and to rebuild trust between the community and the government.
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📢A benefits system should enable Disabled people to live their lives, not make them afraid to live them. We are calling for a fairer benefits system for all.
Join us in #DismantlingTheActivityTrap tomorrow👇
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Summer may be over, but @DisRightsUK heatwave survey is live until the end of October.
Over 700 people have completed the survey so far!
Don't miss the chance to share your heat experiences in the survey to help us push for better support & understanding.
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📢Being active does not mean we are no longer Disabled. Swimming, cycling, walking or going to the gym should not put someone's financial security at risk, yet many fear losing benefits if they do.
Join us to #DismantleTheActivityTrap on 22nd October👇
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Disabled people should not have to choose between being active & financial security!
New research reveals how fear of losing benefits is preventing Disabled people from being physically active.
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Join us at our event this week on #DismantlingTheActivityTrap on Thursday 22nd October.
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📢Today we launch our Activity Trap report. According to this research 80% of Disabled people fear losing their benefits because of physical activity.
They are caught in the Activity Trap.
Read the report 👇
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Summer may be over, but @DisRightsUK heatwave survey is live until the end of October.
Over 700 people have completed the survey so far!
Don't miss the chance to share your heat experiences in the survey to help us push for better support & understanding.
surveymonkey.com/r/6GQZ2NW
ALT Image is a cartoon of a man sweating, holding his head as the sun hovers over him.
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📢Join us for @DisRightsUK AGM & The Conversation, “The challenge ahead: what now for our fight for rights?”, on the 25 November!
We want to hear what matters to you! How we can work together to protect our rights!
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Disablism in the media feeds hostility and hate crime against Disabled people. It's got to stop.
This National Hate Crime Awareness Week, we're launching Disability Media Action. #NationalHCAW
ALT Disability media action. Logo of a pair of binoculars with eyes. Make disablism unprofitable. 3 steps. 1. Monitor. We have launched an online form, through which people can send us any media coverage which concerns them, and any adverts which appeared alongside it. 2. Expose. We will bring together the evidence gathered, building up a pattern of evidence that cannot be dismissed. 3. Change. We will use our evidence base to put pressure on advertisers to stop funding media outlets who spread disablism. If advertisers don’t fund them, media organisations have another reason to change. Let’s show the media that disablism doesn’t pay.
📢Join us for @DisRightsUK AGM & The Conversation, “The challenge ahead: what now for our fight for rights?”, on the 25 November!
We want to hear what matters to you! How we can work together to protect our rights!
Full story & registration here:
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"Social care for Disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it?"
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Summer may be gone, but the heat remains, affecting the health and homes of Disabled people.
The Disability Rights UK Heatwave Survey is still online!
Please share your experience of heat in our survey to help us to make the case for change: surveymonkey.com/r/6GQZ2NW
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This week at the @UKLabour Conference the Right to Food commission, which aims to deliver food security to everyone in the UK by 2035 launched its report with evidence from the Disability Poverty Campaign Group
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Rachel and Lizzi speak about what physical activity means to them - but it wasn't always this easy. Hear their journeys stepping back into sports after becoming disabled, and how it helped build their confidence in life.
Full episode over on YouTube 👇youtube.com/watch?v=S-gphoJW…
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Minister makes ‘feeble’ U-turn after criticism of failure to coproduce government’s Plan for Disability
#Lab26 #Coproduction
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DR UK joins new programme on disability and the environment.
The aim of the project, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, envisions cities where nature, climate resilience and disability inclusion are fully integrated.
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Are Disabled people invisible? New blog piece by Fazilet Hadi
Whilst the funding of the social security system and our support and services are almost a daily discussion, our actual lives never seem to factor into the conversation.
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