A Scottish charity has launched a new campaign to improve the quality of life for disabled people by including them in the design of services and everyday household products from their living rooms.The Blackwood Foundation has launched the bespoken campaign to recognise disabled people as experts on independent living at a time when many face increasingly significant barriers to living independently from benefits reform and cuts to care services.
Category Archives: Carers
The Low Review of personal mobility needs is extended to seek views of young people
Review of DLA mobility component seeks views of young people, parents and colleges to investigate ‘double counting’
5th September 2011
The Low Review of personal mobility needs is extended to seek views of young people, their parent’s and residential schools and colleges
The independent review looking at the personal mobility needs of people living in residential care, led by Lord Low, has today published a call for evidence from disabled young people aged 16 and over, their families, and residential schools and colleges.
The Low Review has been created in response to proposals within the Welfare Reform Bill to stop paying the mobility component of the Personal Independence Payment, replacing DLA, to disabled people living in publicly funded residential care homes or colleges.
Knutsford council are ignoring “the needs of the ill or disabled or their exhausted and impoverished carers
Austerity begins at home: Cuts bite among Chancellor’s constituents
He said we’re all in it together – but few believed him. Now George Osborne faces anger in his back yard, as his economic ‘Plan A’ takes its toll. Paul Vallely reports
Saturday, 10 September 2011
We’ve never had so many members of the public come to a meeting, said the bewildered Conservative leader of Cheshire East County Council, Wesley Fitzgerald, at the start of its cabinet meeting this week. It was so packed that they had to move the councillors’ seating to accommodate the public.
Many face increasingly significant barriers to living independently from benefits reform
Social media campaign taps into expertise of disabled people
Many face increasingly significant barriers to living independently from benefits reform and cuts to care services.
By Catie Guitart 09 September 2011 14:48 BST
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