Disability Rights UK Factsheet

Finding information on the Disability Alliance website

This factsheet gives a brief description of key areas on our website as well as their address. If you are using the factsheet online you can go to these areas by clicking on the relevant link.

Address of website

1. www.disabilityalliance.org - main address of site.

2. www.disabilityalliance.org/sitemap.htm - from here you can view a list of everything on the DA website.

Benefits and tax credits information

3. www.disabilityalliance.org/ben3.htm – our online checklist of benefits and tax credits for different client groups. The links take you to more detailed information.

4. www.disabilityalliance.org/forthcoming.htm – this page has up and coming changes to benefits and tax credits.

5. www.disabilityalliance.org/faq.htm – this takes you to our subject list of frequently asked questions (faq). We have faqs on the following– benefits, community and residential care, law and appeals, students, tax credits, transport and work. You can also suggest your own faqs.

Benefits law

6. www.disabilityalliance.org/digest2.htm – this has information on benefits related law (acts and regulations)

7. www.disabilityalliance.org/digest.htm – this page links to useful summaries of past commissioners decisions, upper tribunal (administrative appeals chamber) decisions and court decisions.

Latest website posts

8. www.disabilityalliance.org/whatsnew.htm – this enables you to find out what has been posted onto the website recently. It is organised into latest site additions, DA publications, DA press releases and DA campaigns.

9. http://feeds.feedburner.com/DisabilityAllianceNewsfeed - this is a link to our newsfeed. You can save time by using this to check for new posts on the DA website without having the site. You will need a newsreader such as the online Google reader or the free Snarfer programme to use our newsread.

10. http://twitter.com/DAnewsflash - This link enables you to follow us on Twitter.

Follow Disability Alliance on Twitter

11. http://tinyurl.com/3vduzys - This link enables you to follow us on Facebook.

Find us on Facebook

Membership

12. www.disabilityalliance.org/member.htm – go here if your organisation is considering taking out membership of Disability Alliance. All member organisations receive free copies of all our publications.

Other organisations

13. www.disabilityalliance.org/links.htm – we have a large number of useful links to other organisations and government departments covering accessibility, benefits, heating, housing, immigration, law, medical information, local organisations, social policy, tax, tax credits, transport and work . You can also suggest new site links.

14. www.disabilityalliance.org/coalitiononcharging.htm - Disability Alliance maintains and hosts the Coalition on Charging website.

15. www.disabilityalliance.org/dbc.htm - Disability Alliance maintains and hosts the Disability Benefits Consortium website.

Policy, research and campaign work

16. www.disabilityalliance.org/campaigning.htm – this provides information on our current campaigns and policy work.

17. www.disabilityalliance.org/pressreleases.htm - this is an archive of recent press releases and media events.

Publications

18. www.disabilityalliance.org/fact.htm – this takes you directly to our list of factsheets. We have over 50 factsheets contain information on benefits, tax credits, care issues and other related information.

19. www.disabilityalliance.org/shop.htm – go here for a list of all publications available to download for free or to buy (such as the Disability Rights handbook and the ESA Guide). If you click on a title you will get more information about the publication. You can also download an order form.

31 May 2011

Disability Alliance