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Disability Alliance Responses

Our responses to Government and other consultations on proposed changes to social security provision, which will be most useful to policy advisers, MPs and journalists. You might also find our briefing and factsheet pages useful.

You can also order up to three paper versions of our factsheets, briefings or responses if you send an A4 envelope and a 65p stamp to Disability Alliance, Universal House, 88-94 Wentworth Street, London, E1 7SA.

If you require more than three factsheets or for publications available in alternative formats, such as audio tape, large print and braille, please contact Disability Alliance on  020 7247 8776 (voice and minicom) or by fax on 020 7247 8765.

• Shaping the Future of Care Together: Disability Alliance response to the Department of Health Green Paper on adult social care reform in England (R64 - November 2009)
• Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights: compatibility of the welfare reform bill with the uk 's human rights obligations (R63 - March 2009)
• Response to the Social Fund: A new approach (R62 - December 2008)
• Response to No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility (R61 - October 2008)
• Response to the inquiry into the Blue Badge (Disabled Parking) Reform Strategy (R60 - June 2008)
• Response to Helping people achieve their full potential: Improving Specialist Disability Employment Services (R59 - March 2008)
• Response to Transforming tribunals: Implementing part 1 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (R58 - February 2008)
• Response to the Green Paper, In work, better off: next steps to full employment. (R57 - July 2007)
• Response to Reducing dependency, increasing opportunity: options for the future of welfare to work - the Freud review (R56 - May 2007)
• Response to Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefits (IIDB) scheme consultation. (R55 - April 2007)
• Response to Work and Pensions Committee inquiry to the Social Fund. (R54 - April 2007)
• Response to Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into benefit simplification. (R53 - April 2007)
• Response from Disability Benefits Consortium to HM Treasury on the ‘Long-term opportunities and challenges for the UK: analysis for the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review’ paper. (R52 - February 2007)
• Response of Disability Alliance to the Transformation of the Personal Capability Assessment paper. (R51 - September 2006)
• Response to the quinquennial review of the Independent Living Fund. (R50 - September 2006)
• Response to the Green Paper - A new Deal for Welfare: Empowering people to work. (R49 - April 2006)
• Response to the House of Commons Health Committee inquiry into co-payments and charges in the NHS (R48 - December 2005). Includes link to House of Commons Health Committee report.
• Response to the Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry into the reform of incapacity benefits and Pathways to Work (R47 - October 2005)
• Disability Benefits Consortium response to "principles for reform – the national pensions debate" - (Ref R46 - April 2005)
• Response in advance of the government green paper for the reform of incapacity benefit (Ref R45 - April 2005)
  1. R45 - pdf version
  2. R45 - word version
• Response to inland revenue proposals: modernising the tax system for trusts (ref R44 - November 2004)
• Response to the Conservative Party Disability Consultation (ref R43)
  1. R43 - pdf version
  2. R43 - word version
• 2004 Spending review - childcare review (ref R42 - November 2003)
• Summary of response to the Work and Pensions Committee "inquiry to examine the extent of child poverty in the UK and the effectiveness of the Government's strategy to eradicate it.''(ref R41 - September 2003)
  1. R41 - pdf version
  2. R41 - word version
• Response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee inquiry: How can suitable, affordable childcare be provided for all parents who need it to enable them to work? (ref R40 - February 2003)
• Response to the Social Security Advisory Committee re The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit  Work-Focused Interviews) Regulations 2003 (ref R39 - July 2003)
• Evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry:" Employment for all: assisting people with health problems and disabilities into work" (ref R38 - January 2003)
  1. R38 - pdf version
  2. R38 - word version
• Response to the Social Security Advisory Committee re The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Amendment Regulations 2003 (ref R37 - April 2003) 
• A response to Pathways to work: Helping people into employment (ref R36 - February 2003);
  1. R36 - pdf version
  2. R36 - word version
• Response to Practice Guidance on Fairer Charging Policies for Home Care and other Non-residential Social Services (ref R30 - March 2002)

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