20/03/201221/03/2012News Update on Personal Health Budgets In Control recently organised an excellent webinar on Personal Health Budgets (PHB’s)Personal health Budgets flyer . The key messages were: A PHB […]
07/03/201207/03/2012News Joint meeting with the PFG Active independence and the Personalisation Forum Group met yesterday to explore ways in which we can work together as user led organisations. The […]
01/03/2012News Rights of disabled people may be at risk, says Human Rights Committee The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) today publishes its Report on the implementation of the right of disabled people to independent […]
27/02/201218/05/2012News Active Independence teams up with Protective Behaviours UK We are pleased to announce that we are teaming up with Protective Behaviours UK to offer their very popular Foundation Level Protective […]
23/02/201218/05/2012News Active Independence gets Skills for Care funding! Skills for Care has awarded Active Independence a grant of £4260 to deliver a number of activities aimed to support disabled people […]
14/02/201214/02/2012News News on Pensions From October this year, new rules around workplace pensions come into force. This means that all employers – however small – will […]
10/02/201218/05/2012News Active Independence receives £10,040 funding for advocacy project! We are pleased to announce that we have received funding from the Office for Disability Issues Facilitation Fund to deliver an Advocacy Project. […]
06/02/201214/02/2012News Personal Health Budgets Paper The Department of Health has produced a discussion paper on Personal Health Budgets for people receiving NHS continuing Healthcare. This paper is […]
31/01/201214/02/2012News Supporting Age UK’s “Care in Crisis” Campaign Age UK has produced a report about the crisis in funding for the care and support of Disabled and older people. They […]
26/01/201214/02/2012News £20 Million Grant Announced The government has recently announced £20 million additional funding for the Disabled Facilities Grant in England. The Department for Communities and Local […]