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postUrgent Community Response (UCR) TeamThe Urgent Community Response (UCR) service helps people with often complex health needs stay out of hospital by responding to a crisis in someone’s home, including residential and care homes.postThe Altering Disability ClimateIt can feel mighty chilly, as a disabled person in the UK lately. There does seem to be a growing and worrying trend towards targeting disabled income and resources. It’s not difficult to see why more and more disabled people are feeling they are a problem; a drain on resources, rather than vulnerable individuals, worthy of support and empathy. This ongoing trend towards ‘reducing disability’ appears to have, as its central premise, the belief that disability is a choice people are making, when, for the overwhelming majority, it isn't.postUpcoming Changes to the Motability SchemeFrom 1 July 2026, there will be four main changes that apply to new orders for Motability vehicles.postAdult Social Care ChargesSome of you may know about the petition I set up (Link: https://c.org/qgNTyzdCtp ) in 2024, against the proposals of Sutton Council to increase social care charges (specifically targeting the higher-needs-income of their most disabled residents) in order to shore-up council-budgets.postChanges to Universal CreditFrom 6 April 2026, Universal Credit (UC) introduced a new ‘two-tier’ system for the "health element" of UC for those with ‘Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity’ (LCWRA).postThe Timms ReviewThe government has launched the Timms Review, currently looking at Personal Independence Payments (PIP). The review, led by Stephen Timms M.P. (Minister for Social Security and Disability) is now seeking input/feedback from disabled claimants and their families/carers, on their experiences, including how their disability affects them, the PIP assessment process, evidence submission, awards and appeals etc.postHello world!Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!postIt’s a sad reflection of our times, that I even have to write this.It's a sad reflection of our times, that I even have to write this. But, once again, I'm reduced to incredulous indignation by those preying on life-limiting conditions and tragic circumstance.postLove on the Dementia Spectrum:Love isn't all romance, hearts and flowers, as imagined when young. It's about caring for someone so deeply that whatever ails them, scars you twice as deeply.postMy Response to the Timms (PIP) Review,:I filled in my response to the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payments (PIP) today. The review closes to responses, at 11.59pm tonight (28th of May).