Disability Poverty in the UK
17 January 2008 Disability Poverty in the UK is a ground-breaking report that not only looks at financial poverty but also poverty of opportunity and emotional poverty that disabled people face in the UK.The primary recommendations of this report are that the government commits to: 1) End disability poverty, by developing and implementing a specific strategy for tackling the issue 2)Measure disability poverty as a unique form of poverty, through the use of a series of indicators.
The report sets out other recommendations to the government to tackle disability poverty in the UK and the publication on 8 January 2008 will be followed by extensive parliamentary lobbying work.