Category Archives: Guidance

Council Tax Discounts Guidance

Council Tax discounts based on who you live with. First, we’re focusing on discounts based on who lives in your household. Here, Council Tax discounts depend on whether enough ‘qualifying adults’ live in your household (anyone who isn’t a qualifying adult is ‘disregarded’ for Council Tax). In brief : TWO or more qualifying adults. Where there…

Resources on Work Capability Assessments [BSL Signed Videos with Audio and Subtitles]

Check out the RNID guidance and details on what The work Capability Assessment is – https://rnid.org.uk/2023/09/our-response-to-reforms-to-the-work-capability-assessment/ And below check out the Youtube videos for more details on the assessments and understand how PIP is awarded.      

What is Disability Pride?

What is Disability Pride? Disability Pride is about disabled people celebrating their lives and place in the world. Like other equalities and cultural groups disabled people often celebrate pride events in public, showing off their diversity, being proud of who they are. Disability pride is a central part of disabled people’s movements and poses a…

What is Independent Living?

What is independent living? ‘Independent Living’ is a philosophy and a movement of disabled people who work for self-determination, equal opportunities, and self-respect. Independent living is not… Independent Living does not mean that we want to do everything by ourselves and do not need anybody or that we want to live in isolation. Independent living…

Understanding Disability

The social model of disability Disability Equality NW is for all disabled people and exists to provide services which help disabled people live independently. Our understanding of the Social Model is described here: Understanding disability Disability is not a straightforward thing to understand. There are many different words associated with it and many ways of describing…