Our very own UR Consultants recently featured on the All Together Now! website, describing their campaign to combat the bullying of those with learning disabilities. The consultants – all adults with learning disabilities – visit schools, colleges and other public bodies in Liverpool to deliver their message directly. The consultants explain what they do and why [...]

Over the last few days, BBC North West has run an excellent series of features giving the general public a too-rare insight into what it is like to have autism, the challenges and opportunities it can create. Yesterday’s feature was on employment, and interviewed Tom, a young person whom United Response supports in his search [...]

Almost exactly 15 years ago, the Community Care (direct payments) Act 1996 was passed into law. Celebrated as a victory for the rights of people with disabilities, the act was the first to enshrine in law the principle that people who receive social care funding could receive the money directly, rather than having it administered [...]

Viewers of BBC East on Monday evening may have caught an inspiring “Inside Out” feature about Rosemary and Gillian, two lifelong friends United Response is lucky to support. The two became firm friends when they spent 20 years unfairly confined to a longterm institution, before being moved into the community in 1978, as part of [...]

Most people will now be aware of the distressing plight of Riven Vincent, the mother who feels she may be forced to put her severely disabled child into care, due to the cutting of respite services for her daughter. Without this respite care, Mrs Vincent – who herself has multiple sclerosis, and three children to [...]