Equality And Human Rights Commission

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is requiring the Department for Work and Pensions to improve its treatment of disabled benefit claimants in response to serious concerns about failures to meet the needs of its customers with mental health impairments and learning disabilities. Disabil

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The Legal Services Agency (LSA) is hosting virtual meetings to allow lawyers in the social justice sector to connect during lockdown. The next one is at 4pm this Thursday and will include short presentations from the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Shelter Scotland.

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued a short FAQs document for advisers in Scotland’s housing sector which sets out the support on offer for dealing with discrimination issues. The Commission has recently re-launched its ‘EHRC Adviser Support’ service which provides high

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In a guest blog written for Inclusion Scotland, the Equality and Human Rights Commission highlights a new guide for disabled people living in Scotland looking at social housing, the private rented sector and adaptations (for all tenures). In December 2016, the Equality and Human Rights Commission la

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Increased awareness of equality law among lawyers and housing advisors will help tackle the discrimination faced by some groups of people at risk of eviction or homelessness, a conference in Glasgow will hear today. The Equality Act 2010 protects people such as those with disabilities from discrimin

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Fanchea Kelly A recent report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Scotland (EHRC) which calls on the Scottish Government to produce a strategy to ensure there’s an adequate supply of housing for people with disabilities is a positive call to action for accessible modern housing, with

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Scotland’s disabled people are being failed by government policy and local government inaction, which leaves thousands with no decent home to live in, according to an Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into disabled people’s housing. By failing to build homes which are accessibl

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Image of the Grenfell Tower fire courtesy of Natalie Oxford via Twitter The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has launched a new project to examine the human rights and equality dimensions of the Grenfell Tower fire after its application to participate in the official inquiry was declined.

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A new report into life for disabled people across Great Britain by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has highlighted a decrease in the amount of wheelchair adapted local authority housing in Scotland. According to the report, up to 17,000 Scottish wheelchair users (15% of all wheelchai

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched an inquiry into the housing experiences of disabled people in Scotland. The national equality body is seeking views from disabled people, housing providers and other relevant organisations as it attempts to understand whether the availability of

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A major new inquiry starting is to investigate the chronic lack of accessible and adaptable housing available for disabled people in Britain. Following research which found that approximately 1.8 million disabled people require suitable housing and approximately 300,000 do not have the adaptations t

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