This page provides you with information which will be be useful for Carers and Advocates.
What's happening.
This BBC web site is very useful for parents, carers or teachers who look after children with Special Educational Needs.
This five-year strategy was developed with the involvement of disabled people and was published in 2008. Independent living isn't about living on your own - it's about making sure all disabled people have the same choice, control and freedom as any other citizen.
The strategy contains commitments which aim to give disabled people:
- Greater choice and control over the support they need to go about their daily lives.
- Greater access to housing, transport, health, employment, education and leisure opportunities and to participation in family and community life.
On this website you can find out how the government is working towards equality for disabled people.
The Roadmap is based on 14 themes that disabled people have said will make the biggest
difference to their lives ('Equality for disabled people: how will we know we are making a
difference?', 2007).
