Irish Government called on to introduce a realistic Cost of Disability payment
27/05/2025Pictured during a pre-budget submission by IWA (Irish Wheelchair Association) Calling on Government to Address the Cost of Disability in Budget 2026 outside leinster house…
£16.2bn for NHS boards to key services in Scotland
The Scottish Government has announced efforts to clear waiting list backlogs, improve capacity, and remove blockages that keep some patients in hospital longer than necessary,…
Disabled Children’s Partnership calls for Government to close funding gap for social care services for disabled children
Following Chancellor Philip Hammond’s recent Budget to Parliament, Stephen Kingdom, Campaign Manager for the Disabled Children’s Partnership, has responded, highlighting that it was a missed…
Budget 2018 reveals £45 million funding into Disabled Facilities Grant and over £20 billion into NHS
Credit: Sky News On the 29th of October, Chancellor Philip Hammond presented his Budget to Parliament, highlighting key funding into the NHS, social care for…
Councils respond to £2 billion social care funding spending rules
Cllr Linda Thomas, Vice Chair of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, has responded to the Government framework published on the 31st March 2017,…
NHS to offer thousands of wheelchair users more control over their provision
"We are determined to give people more power and control over their own healthcare" NHS England on the 18th of May set out action to…
Big home adaptation funds rise in 2016-17
The Better Care Fund 2016/17 Policy Framework has indicated a big rise in the money available for future home adaptations, increasing from £220m in 2015-16…