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Paid Commission for DPOs | Contribute to sector-changing research on DPO Funding
Trust for London, Disability Rights UK and Braw Data are collaborating on a sector-changing research project to map funding to the disability sector. Unlike previous research, this project is UK-wide and draws on a larger database. It will be an essential tool for campaigners to promote funding justice for DPOs and Led by and for organisations. The project will also produce t...

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Paid focus group opportunity
DR UK is supporting a review of disabled people’s experiences of transport accessibility. This review is being carried out the Law Commission of England and Wales, It aims to simplify the laws around transport accessibility and strengthen disabled people’s rights when using buses, trains, taxis and planes.

As part of this review, the Commission is running three in-person ...


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COVID Inquiry reports on social care

On 20 October, the COVID Inquiry gave its verdict on the provision of social care during the pandemic. It made clear that the failings of the care system led to massive human misery and loss of life. Whilst it’s unlikely that a formal report of this nature can ever adequately capture and communicate the horror of what happened and the on-going hurt and anger felt by many...


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Watch The Experiment on Channel 4
As Disabled campaigners for social justice and disability equality, we point to the deep- rooted ableism that runs through our society, where our lives aren’t valued equally to those of non-disabled people, where we are bombarded with political and media messages on being a burden and too costly to support and where we are labelled as fakers and skivers. But rarely do we se...

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Disability Poverty Campaign Group writes to chancellor ahead of budget
The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) has sent a letter to the new Chancellor, Rt Hon John Healey, urging him to break the endless cycle of disability poverty and to rebuild trust between the community and the government.

The DPCG is a coa...


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