The Skills for Care workforce strategy offers an essential step forward in recognising the importance and value of the workforce and the need to invest and reform the sector.
VODG Comments on the Green Party Manifesto and calls for the next government commits all government departments to the co-production of policy with disabled people, disabled people’s organisations and third sector providers.
As we approach the election and the new administration that will follows, we must harness the opportunity to do things differently when it comes to the decisions that impact disabled people and the organisations that work alongside them.
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) recently published a report which found that despite steps taken, the government continues to fail disabled people.
The government has announced its intention to review welfare and fit notes, using language in the Prime Minister's speech that is polarising, harmful and deeply concerning.
In its latest report, the Nuffield Trust looks at a set of five key preventative health care services and functions to understand whether they are working as they should for people with a learning disability.
Ahead of the Budget this week disability charities are calling on The Chancellor to make disabled people of all ages, their families and carers a priority.
VODG Chief Executive Dr Rhidian Hughes responds to the report published by the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee on local authority funding and the £4bn funding gap they currently face.
VODG was asked to comment on Bristol's proposed affordable care home policy, which would have moved people to care homes to cur costs of at home care, and whether this was indicative of a wider problem.
Each year the Joseph Rowntree Foundation publish a poverty report, providing the essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK. The report finds that disabled people face a higher risk of poverty and have done so for at least the past 20 years.
