Missed the Autumn Budget and not quite sure what it will mean for you? Our Youth Engagement Officer, Chloe, takes you through the key changes for Disabled people in this video👇 (You can follow us over on TikTok at www.tiktok.com/@disrightsuk)

💼Job opportunity! Become a Training Officer on our Moving Social Work Programme, embedding disability rights in social work training and giving the right tools to support physical activity for Disabled people Deadline: 9am, 12th Jan More info👇 careers.disabilityrightsuk.org/job/83a611d4...

🎨“[Her win] begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist... that boundary is dissolving.” Disabled artists aren't just here to tick boxes - our perspectives are pioneering. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Whilst the Universal Credit Bill cuts begin in April, there may be steps you need to take before then to secure your claim at the current rate. Our Handbook Editor, Ian, takes you through the upcoming deadlines and how they may affect you 👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/univers...

☎️DR UK Helplines: festive closure times 🧑🏽‍🎓Our Disabled students helpline will be closed to calls from 11th December, with email responses closing on the 16th. 💼Our Personal Budgets helpline will be closed from 16th December. Both will reopen on 5th January 2026!

📢 Your voice matters in SEND reform. Join the national conversation to make sure the system is one Disabled young people deserve. ✅ Join an online event ✅ Tell the Department for Education what works and what needs to change Every voice counts👇 🔗 www.gov.uk/dfe/SEND-conversation

🎭We've been working with Disabled communities and creative groups to work on a Toolkit that will help make creative spaces more accessible for all. 💥We're so excited to be launching this in February, and we want YOU there! Don't miss it! Register now👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/make-it-toge...

If you... 👉are making a new claim for UC and believe you need the health element 👉are on UC and will be requesting a WCA soon 👉are already on LCW but want to be assessed for LCRWA Check if you need to take action now because of the UC Bill 👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/avoidin...

Whilst the Universal Credit Bill cuts begin in April, there may be steps you need to take before then to secure your claim at the current rate. Our Handbook Editor, Ian, takes you through the upcoming deadlines and how they may affect you. 📢Read & share www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/univers...

🚨Government Left Financially Vulnerable Disabled People Without a Pandemic Safety Net, Covid-19 Inquiry Hears Our CEO, Kamran Mallick, outlined how the lack of funding exacerbating pre-existing financial inequalities for Disabled people More👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/governm...

🚨NEWS🚨 We are deeply concerned at the DWP's 'bank spying bill' coming into force today. A government agency that is notorious for punitive sanctions and bureaucratic faults that have cost lives, this will have dire consequences. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Whilst the Universal Credit Bill cuts begin in April, there may be steps you need to take before then to secure your claim at the current rate. Our Handbook Editor, Ian, takes you through the upcoming deadlines and how they may affect you. 📢Read & share www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/univers...

This International Day of Disabled People, we’re reminded that disability justice is deeply connected to every other fight for equity. Our struggles connect us. Our solidarity is our strength! 💥 #IDDP

Plugging this as a reminder, if there are deadlines that may affect you, you may need to take action or get a fit note dated before the 5th January. Do read to make sure you're prepared:

Great news! You can now register for this event here, we'd love to see you there👇 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If you... 👉are making a new claim for UC and believe you need the health element 👉are on UC and will be requesting a WCA soon 👉are already on LCW but want to be assessed for LCRWA Check if you need to take action now because of the UC Bill 👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/avoidin...

Our website is now back up, earlier than scheduled! See you over there, maybe looking at our factsheets...? www.disabilityrightsuk.org/guidance-res...

Our website is down for scheduled maintenance from 9am to midday today - so if it’s not loading, that’s why! Apologies for any inconvenience caused, we’ll be back up and running in a few hours💙

The Government's Universal Credit Bill will cut in half the monthly health-element of UC for new claimants. If you are looking to make a claim now or soon, it's important to check whether this could effect you - and what action you need to take. See more www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/avoidin...

💥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! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKm...

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...

🗣️“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-...

🚨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-...

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...

🚨#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?

🚨#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.

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

🚨#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?

🚨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...

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...

🚨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...

🚨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...

🚨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...

💥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! Sign-up and share in your networks www.disabilityrightsuk.org/sign-our-dpo...

📣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👇 shop.disabilityrightsuk.org/discount/WIN...

🎨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...

📚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

🚨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...

🗣️“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...

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...

🚨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...

📢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/...

🚨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...

🚨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...

Pleased to be quoted in this - we must pushback on these narratives that scapegoating us for successive governments' policy failures. The enemy is not the wheelchair user or migrant next door, but those legislating to make all our lives harder. www.thenational.scot/news/2558529...

24% of Disabled people avoid using public transport due to accessibility issues. 4.7 million Disabled people live in poverty. The politicians who make the above stats a reality are choosing to attack the Motability Scheme, instead of the system that locks us out of society.

🗣️"Nowadays fitness looks different from my younger years. Its predominantly wheelchair based or seated and I love it. I think the biggest thing it’s taught me is how to adapt." Hear Gavin's story of getting back into sport and what it means to him👇 getyourselfactive.org/story/what-i...

"30 years since the Disability Discrimination Act, now what?" Join our annual conference looking at the last 3 decades of disability activism and how it can inform tackling current challenges. 📅November 26th ⏰5 - 6:30pm 💻Online via Zoom Register now! www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

🌎Get involved in Everyone's Environment! Disabled people are disproportionately impacted by climate change, yet our stories are some of the least heard. Become part of the network for change to put our communities at the centre of policy. Learn more👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/everyones-en...

We are appalled at the Government's threats to PIP and the Motability Scheme we are hearing surrounding their upcoming budget. Balancing their books on the backs of the most marginalised is a political choice, an unconscionable one. Read Fazilet's blog 👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...