Campaigning news

Government consultation on emergency evacuation information sharing

In late 2020, the Government conducted a consultation to consider how to raise housing accessibility standards, recognising the importance of suitable homes for older and disabled people and that we have an ageing population in this country.

The Fabian Society has announced a new inquiry that will develop a roadmap towards a ‘national care service’ for England

Disabled drivers warned that their Blue Badge parking permits will not currently be recognised in some of the most popular EU destinations for British driving holidays.

Baroness Hallett, Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, has officially launched the Inquiry and opened its first investigation into how well prepared the UK was for a pandemic.

The next virtual meeting of the ‘APPG on Spinal Cord Injury’ is on Wednesday 13 July 2022 at 3pm – please invite your MP to attend.

A call for evidence has opened to inform a new 10 year plan to level up mental health across the country and put mental and physical health on an equal footing.

We were delighted to take part in the Urology Trade Association (UTA) and The Urology Foundation’s (TUF) jointly-hosted Parliamentary Reception at Westminster recently, where the theme of the evening was ‘Working together to support innovation in the medtech sector’.

We have joined with more than 50 organisations from across the human rights, equality and civil liberties sector to warn the Prime Minister against the ‘dire consequences’ of scrapping the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a new Bill of Rights.

Despite announcing measures to help strengthen the emergency services and ensure people feel safer in their homes the Government hasn’t implemented PEEPs for disabled people who can’t self-evacuate from high rise buildings.

MAC report – some progress, but more still to be done

The House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee has launched a major inquiry, ‘Lifting the veil: Removing the invisibility of…