Last week provided a rare opportunity for celebration for people with mental health needs, thanks to the historic House of Commons debate which saw many MPs speak courageously about their own experiences with mental health. Unfortunately, a report published on Monday will have brought many back to earth with a crash. The report from the [...]

“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 [...]