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PDF Flyer providing details about the Law and Transition workshop for families on 20th February

Using the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services is practical guide for campaigners – disabled people, families, carers and local groups (Updated version July 2012)

An overview of Deputyship and Lasting Power of Attorney

Links to useful websites and documents about your rights and the law.

An overview of Types of Tenancy Agreements

An overview of Tenancy Agreements for people with learning disabilities

This Guide is written primarily for staff working with people with learning disabilities and with their families and support networks. We assume some knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

These reports focus on how young people with learning disabilities, families, professionals and services can define their shared expectations.

This fact sheet outlines the limitations and possibilities in renting to a relative.

This Guide is written primarily for staff working with people with learning disabilities and with their families and support networks. We assume some knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

Full text of claim for judicial review of the decision by the Minister for Disabled People made on 6 March 2014 to close the Independent Living Fund (“ILF”) with effect from 30 June 2015, and to transfer funding to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales, and to local authorities in England. The Claimants are severely disabled people who are current users of the ILF.

About The Housing and Support Alliance - what we do

A fact sheet describing the ways to get a house.

This fact sheet describes a kind of housing where people have their own room in a shared house and get staff support.

This page is a briefing about the Bedroom Tax and how it may affect people with learning disabilities

A briefing sheet about how PIP will replace Disability Living Allowance from April 2013

Overview of how assistive technology can be used for people with learning disabilities

Examples of how welfare reform will impact on the income of people with learning disabilities.

A fact sheet that tells you about adapting a property.

A briefing about how Universal Credit will replace current means-tested benefits from April 2013.

This fact sheet explains how some tenancies tenancies are 'exempt' or 'excluded' from the ordinary rules that apply to calculating how much Housing Benefit can be paid in private sector tenancies.