There are concerns that reductions in benefits and public services will significantly and disproportionately affect disabled people.

Inclusion London responds

Inclusion London highlights the reality of cuts in social care budgets and tightening of social care eligibility criteria experienced by disabled people.

Inclusion London believes that councils and central government must work together to protect people with impairments, so they are not further disabled by cuts in care and cuts in services, support and advocacy provided by user led organisations.

Inclusion London calls on the Mayor to provide funding to improve the transport system in London so it becomes fully accessible, affordable and reliable.

Consultation on proposed changes to the laws governing powered mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs (DfT 2010)

Read Inclusion London’s response to the government’s consultation on recommendations in ‘Getting in, staying in and getting on’, the report on specialist disability employment support.

Government's proposals will jeopardise the income stream of housing providers and lead to even less supported housing being available in future.

Inclusion London’s response to the second review of WCA. September 2011.

Poverty and disadvantage will increase for disabled people if government’s proposals to abolish DLA and supplant it with PIP go ahead.

The government intends to abolish Disability Living Allowance and replace it with PIP for those of working age from 2013.

Read Inclusion London’s analysis of the new report on Fairer Care Funding – the report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support.

Inclusion London responded to the inquiry by the Joint Committee of Human Rights, into the implementation of the right to independent living for disabled people, as guaranteed by Article 19, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Inclusion London, together with a number of other DDPOs and voluntary sector organisations, is opposing government plans for sweeping cuts to the powers, budget and work of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Inclusion London responded to the government’s latest proposals for the public sector equality duties, saying why we are dismayed that the government is consulting yet again and why the proposals would be very bad for disabled people.

Inclusion London's new information paper provides information about the proposals in the Welfare Reform Bill.

Inclusion London opposes the government’s bias towards special school’s and supports inclusion in mainstream schools.

Inclusion London’s new information paper looks at the government’s green paper Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability’.

Inclusion London recommends disabled people’s involvement in Bus Driver Disability Awareness Training, content of Information Leaflet and design of new services and vehicles, see response for full details.

Inclusion London strongly opposes the government’s proposals to reform DLA, which would condemn many more disabled people living in poverty.

The government is proposing to cut legal aid very severely. Inclusion London’s submission to the government consultation explains how the plans will deny access to justice for disabled people and why we oppose them.

Inclusion London has responded to the consultation on the government’s proposals for social housing. The submission is available for download and contains key facts and information for DPOs.The consultation closes on 17 January 2011.

The government is consulting on its proposed changes to social housing, which were announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review in October.

The government has launched a consultation on its proposals for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for working age disabled people.

Our new policy information paper explains key problems with the government’s proposals for Universal Credit.

Inclusion London has responded to the government’s consultation on its proposed specific equality duties regulations.

Inclusion London analyses the impact of the Comprehensive Spending Review on Deaf and disabled people.

Inclusion London has set out steps we want the Mayor to take to address the inequality disabled people face in London.

Inclusion London’s seminar on Disability in the Equality Act 2010 on Thursday 23 September was a great success. Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre’s conference room was filled to the brim with delegates to hear about and discuss rights under the new Equality Act, due to start coming into force in October. Delegates primarily came from public sector bodies, some private and voluntary sector organisations and from DDPOs.

Inclusion London and RADAR are calling on the government to change its proposals for the specific equality duties.

A new version of the London Plan is currently being proposed by the Mayor of London. It aims to shape London’s development over the next 20 to 25 years. It will replace the existing Plan (published in 2004).

GLA Disability Equality Scheme – time for disabled people to say what we think

The impact of the Budget on disabled people will be bad and will get progressively worse over the lifetime of the parliament.

In June, Inclusion London submitted evidence to the London Assembly’s Transport Committee investigation into the accessibility of London’s transport network.

Inclusion London Information Paper

Public Meeting

The Equality Bill (to become the Equality Act) will merge and replace existing anti-discrimination legislation, including the Disability Discrimination Act.

information paper

Door-to-door transport services in London

Submission from Inclusion London

Submission from Inclusion London

Feedback and next steps

This briefing provides initial background for the meeting on Tuesday 8 December 2009, at City Hall.

Tuesday 8 December 2009, at City Hall

How much do you know about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)?

Consultation on The London Health Inequalities Strategy

The Government published the White Paper, Building a National Care Service

Inclusion London welcomes the fact that the Green Paper accepts that the current system for funding care and support for adults in England is unfair

This paper is from Inclusion London.

Government is consulting on its proposals for the specific public sector equality duties.

How much do you know about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)?

The comments below are from Inclusion London, the pan-London Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations CIC.

This is Inclusion London’s response to the consultation being undertaken by the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) on the ‘Right to Control’

The Equality Bill includes the equality duty for the public sector.

Inclusion London consulted on the government’s proposals for the public sector equality duties

Inclusion London sets out its response to the questions in the consultation.