Well, it is finished! It's been nearly two months in the making, with a lot of hard work from The Broken of Britain and CarerWatch, and dedicated, detailed and moving testimony from all of you. Since the second draft was released, minor changes have been made, with additional testimonies and citations from reports included as 'smoking guns'. You can read the document here.
Before being sent off on Thursday, I would like to include a page listing 'supporters'. If you are willing to support this document, please leave a message here, either you real name or a screen name.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t8YmKuEbtT7kckSXymklHXX2pRg21-gsZMxMh4k1JaY/edit?hl=en&authkey=CPCbgukF
Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout loud enough to drown out this tide of abuse against us. Disability Hate Crime, lack of full legal protection, people in care homes costing too much to be let out and not one political party willing to fight for us.
I am in total support of this document. I have MS and work full-time, and the proposed changes are likely to leave me without transport, support or equipment to live a dignified and normal life. Here's hoping this is a genuine consultation and not just the government making a show of caring about what we think, when their decision has already been made.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! You've worked so hard.
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely a supporter, obviously!
Did you manage to do anything about individual submissions too as advised?
Great great work!!
I ompeltely support this. Kyron Hodgetts
ReplyDeleteI completely support this. You're far more eloquent at putting points across than I will ever be.
ReplyDeleteI just hope our voices are heard and not ignored. As a wheelchair user with spina bifida and chronic debilitating pain I'm used to being invisible, and am scared that I won't be 'disabled enough' under the proposed changes to DLA.
Woodlandfae
Adrian Hindle-I fully support this document
ReplyDeleteI fully support this document. Thanks for all the work that has gone into this. Harriet Nevill
ReplyDeleteI completely support this and thank you for all the work that has gone into this submission. Let me know if you need further contributions from young carers. Thank you again. X
ReplyDeleteI totally support this document. Due to a Traumatic Brain Injury I'm physically and mentally disabled, in receipt of lower rate care and mobility. My condition will not improve therefore reassesment pointless. DLA helps pay for travel costs to hospitals, supermarket and other things I can never remember (memory permanently damaged). Yes to DLA, No to PIP.
ReplyDeleteI fully support this document.
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