Disability Rights UK

As the heat surges again this week, it is essential to highlight that not everyone is impacted equally. Disabled people, along with other marginalised groups, are disproportionately affected. Polly Maton, our Community Organisation Lead on the Everyone's Environment programme, explains how heatwaves uncover wider inequality in our society and should be treated not just as a...

Kamran Mallick writes about a recent Access to Work decision that cut his support after over 15 years, and how it demonstrates the wider assault on Disabled people. Despite the Government cutting benefits for Disabled people under the claim they want more of us in work, for those who are able to work, Kamran speaks about facing the same form of cuts, reassessments and unjus...

This morning, Wednesday 12th July 2026, the Timms Review announced the next stage of the Review into Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The Review is seeking participants to shape recommendations and solutions following  their Interim Report, which was released in early July. The Review has said that the proposed workshops will help inform it's final report due in Novembe...

Inclusion London, our close ally and a leading DPO, has created a useful set of resources to help you write to your MP about the need to save, and properly fund, the Access to Work Scheme. Get involved now!

Overview of the issues

Access to Work is a scheme which helps ...

The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) has written to the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, urging him to continue his disability allyship by tackling disability poverty and rebuilding trust between the community and the government.

The DPCG...