The most important election issues for disabled people are the benefits system, the NHS and social care, according to a new survey.
Many disabled people will also look at parties’ policies on poverty and equality when deciding who to vote for in the general election, the poll found.
The survey by ComRes for the disability charity Scope [...]
Conservative policy on incapacity benefit (IB) reform appeared in disarray today after the party’s disability spokesman contradicted public comments by his boss.
Last week, Theresa May, the Conservative work and pensions spokeswoman, told the BBC that all “2.6 million people on IB” would be reassessed to determine if they could work.
May made it clear that there [...]
DisabledGo’s Chief Executive Dr. Gregory Burke was keynote speaker at the recent Equality and Diversity in Further Education Workforce Conference.
The conference is the only equality and diversity event tailored towards the FE sector that focuses on the workforce and covers all strands of equality; it was attended by over 200 delegates.
The conference is designed to [...]
DisabledGo’s surveyors travel all over the UK each year visiting towns and cities from Aberdeen to Plymouth, Liverpool to London. Taking them there and back again are our fleet of Fiat Puntos and this month they have undergone a makeover.
To raise the profile of www.disabledgo.com all our cars now have our logo and website address [...]
1 in 5 people in the UK is affected by ill-health, injury or disability. RADAR, the Royal Association for Disability Rights, is the leading UK pan-disability charity. We campaign for justice and equality for disabled people. Well known for our RADAR keys to 8000+ disabled toilets, we also support families living with ill-health, injury of [...]
Public sector partners in Barnsley have joined forces to ensure disabled people receive comprehensive information about access to their services.
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, NHS Barnsley and Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have formed a pioneering partnership investing in DisabledGo to provide in-depth online access information for disabled people on award winning website www.disabledgo.com.
DisabledGo, the UK’s [...]
The London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the 5 Olympic Host Boroughs and will soon be joining online access guide www.disabledgo.com!
The guide to Waltham Forest will cover 1,000 venues including hotels, parks, leisure centres, council offices, high street stores, restaurants, dentists, tourist attractions – the list goes on and on.
www.DisabledGo.com currently features 15,000 [...]
20th-22nd of April the DisabledGo team headed to the NEC in Birmingham for the Naidex exhibition. This is the first year we have had a stand so we were all very excited to be attending.
Naidex is the UK’s number 1 exhibition for the national homecare, rehabilitation and disability market. With thousands of products being exhibited [...]