DRAFT standards on STOMP STAMP are currently out for consultation. VODG, as part of the Expert Reference Group, is gathering input from across our membership and networks.
VODG has joined the Challenging Behaviour Foundations, Kids and others in signing a letter demanding change for young people with a learning disability and their families during transition to adults.
The Civil Society Group has made a submission to the Treasury ahead of the Budget, making the case for investment and support for VCSE organisations and the positive contributions and difference they make.
As part of the National Children's Bureau Children and Young People’s Health Policy Influencing Group (HPIG) we have produced a briefing setting out how the 10 Year Health Plan can reprioritise how children and young people are served by the health system.
VODG joined 160 organisations in writing to the Prime Minister, calling on the Government to stand up for inclusion, equality and racial justice in response to threats and division tactics being used by some groups.
VODG joined the National Housing Federation in writing to Ministers on the need to protect supported housing and for regulation to be effective and proportionate.
VODG joined Scope and over 50 other civil society organisations to urge the government to withdraw this bill and co-produce all disability benefits reforms with disabled people.
We continue to be concerned that the Universal Credit and Personal independence Payment Bill is being rushed through and 'concessions' risk creating a two-tier system for disabled people.
Ahead of the Children’s Wellbeing and School’s Bill reaching the Lords, VODG, Magic Breakfast and others wrote to Peers on the importance of school breakfast provisions, including for those with SEND.
