Disability Rights UK is the leading charity of its kind in the UK. We are run by and for people with lived experience of disability or health conditions.
We want a society where everyone can participate equally.
We are disabled people leading change
- In 3 years we will enable at least 50,000 diverse disabled people to have voice and influence, connecting with each other and with us. We support change agents and enable disabled people to exert power and influence.
- We will work in partnership with other Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) to showcase approaches to social, economic and public participation and share learning, including through joint projects.
- We will work with many organisations in a position to act, in all sectors, to support them to put disabled people’s priorities at the heart of their policies and practices.
- We will campaign to strengthen and protect disabled people’s rights.
Grants
Disability Rights UK
The Right to Participate
Grant: £98,000
November 9, 2016
This project will create an innovative interactive guide to increase disabled people’s understanding of their legal rights. It will combine new technology with best evidence on framing rights-based messages and support disabled people to see where the barrier they are facing has a legal solution.
This resource will consist of four main elements:
- The Right to Participate – introductory video presentation showing and describing disabled people’s rights across three dimensions of participation; Out-and-About, Employment and Education
- Take Action – guided pathways illustrating a range of possible ‘early intervention’ solutions and taking disabled people through the steps required to use the law, mount challenges and effect change.
- Forum - where disabled people can share experiences.
- Find Out More - further resources, links to our own factsheets, helplines, blogs, news updates and other sources of support
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| User of Advice Organisations | ||
| Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
| Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
| Understand Role of Technology | ||
| Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
| Communications to Disseminate Learning | ||
Disability Rights UK
Implications of Brexit for Disability Rights
Grant: £9,750
November 9, 2016
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| People Working in the Law | ||
| Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
| Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
| Understand Role of Technology | ||
| Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
| Communications to Disseminate Learning | ||
