“Social care is an essential human need,” the Government stated in its Vision For Adult Social Care in 2010. Unfortunately, with a social care system that is buckling under growing demand, fewer and fewer people are seeing that human need met.  We wanted to know what real people with learning disabilities thought about their support [...]

So a new year is upon us, one which shows every sign of being an even more momentous for Government disability policy than 2011. Last year we saw the Government launch a huge wave of legislation and consultation that affected people with disabilities or mental health needs. The healthcare reforms were the most high profile [...]

Credit where credit’s due. This week the Government did something that many disability organisations – including United Response – have been urging it to do for a long time, by launching a new website it has dubbed the eAccessibility Forum. The website aims to be a place where people with disabilities – such as learning [...]

There’s now a month to go before the end of the Government’s consultation on the Disability Living Allowance, which – as a glance at our preceding blogs will prove – has already proven controversial. To mark the day, The Broken of Britain (an online forum for people with disabilities and their supporters) has launched a [...]

Yesterday I blogged about two articles appearing in The Times and The Guardian on a report by 27 charities, including United Response, which found that the Government’s plan to cut the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance was based on a flawed understanding of current funding. The cut threatens to seriously compromise the independence of [...]

On Monday, United Response was delighted to host a successful event in the Houses of Parliament, entitled “Opening Up Democracy”. The event, held in association with Dods, The House Magazine and ePolitix.com, was designed to provide attending MPs with practical guidance on ensuring people with learning disabilities and other hard to reach constituents are able [...]