Tuesday 6 November 2012

People with learning disabilities worry about care funding and benefits

People with learning disabilities are worried about the levels of funding for care, what is going to happen to their benefits and how their support will be affected as a result, a new report has revealed.

Free care for disabled people, as well as better access to support for those with mild and moderate needs and those with multiple disabilities were also identified as crucial in the findings of Our Future, produced by disability charity United Response.

Our Future looks at Government plans published in the recent White Paper and Draft Care and Support Bill from the perspective of United Response’s Campaigns Panel, a group of service users with learning disabilities and their relatives, surveyed and interviewed by the charity.

Full Article on LD Today

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