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The Welsh government has refused pleas to set up a replacement for the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in Wales, but it has protected the budgets of ILF-users for at least another nine months. The Welsh government had been consulting on the […]
Tens of thousands of disabled children could benefit from a change in the law that now allows under-17s to use more advanced powered wheelchairs, campaigners claim. The amendment to existing highways regulations came into force on Monday (9 March) and increases […]
The mobile computing revolution is helping to make disabled people more “appealing” to potential employers, as well as to providers of goods and services, according to a leading disabled telecommunications analyst. In a new report, Digitising the Disabled Billion: Accessibility gets […]
Four disabled peers have called on the hotel industry to do far more to improve access for their customers. The debate in the House of Lords heard from the disabled peers Baroness [Celia] Thomas, Baroness [Jane] Campbell, Baroness [Sue] Masham and […]
A council has been criticised over plans to remove a concession that offered free parking at work for disabled members of staff with blue badges. Newcastle City Council wants to charge its 18 disabled members of staff to park at work […]
Four of the UK’s leading pan-disability organisations have secured £5 million in lottery funding for a major series of research projects on independent living. The Big Lottery Fund has given the money to Disability Action Northern Ireland, and its research partners […]
Disabled campaigners have criticised a council’s refusal to ban all advertising boards from blocking its city’s pavements. City of York Council’s cabinet decided this week to introduce only a partial ban on so-called A-boards – free-standing, A-shaped boards used to advertise […]
Social care should be seen as a “social and economic generator” and not a “burden” on tax-payers, according to a leading disabled academic. Professor Peter Beresford said, in a public lecture at Brunel University this week, that the provision of social […]
Labour has finally admitted that it will not save the Independent Living Fund (ILF) if it secures power in May’s general election. Last week a government-resourced trust which helps about 16, 500 people with the highest support needs to live independently. […]
A high court ruling has raised new concerns about how disabled people will be affected by the combination of three major government reforms of social care, and the funding crisis facing local authorities. Two disabled children, known as L and P, […]