Our office remains closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
We’re delighted to welcome Rich Watts as our new Chair to our Board of Trustees.
We believe that the law should provide better support for carers who wish to work. We are working to have the law changed. We have now finished our survey and …
This week (6-11 November) is National Pro Bono Week, an annual week to recognise the contribution lawyers make, free-of-charge, to many people and organisations in need of legal advice who …
We are delighted to have been able to support the innovative employability project Moving Up run by Muscular Dystrophy UK by providing training in employment and discrimination law to a …
DLS is delighted to have formed a relationship with Evenbreak, a platform for disabled job-seekers. Below we set out a few words from Jane Hatton, the founder of Evenbreak “It’s …
Our excellent Chair, Sarah Holloway, is standing down after three years and we are now looking to recruit someone equally excellent to replace her.
If you’d be interested in finding out more, or want to share the role with someone you think might be a good fit, do click here: https://wordpress-70950-1455895.cloudwaysapps.com/job/chair-of-trustees/
We’re very happy to announce that we have a new Welfare Benefits Advisor, Jo Mitchell. Jo will be providing advice by telephone, email and face to face at 3 outreach …
All of us at DLS would like to thank our fantastic runners in 2017 – Cayla Pattinson, Angela Li and Nicola Gray, who together have raised an amazing £9,043! We …
We are delighted to announce that Paralympian 100 metre medallist, Andrew Small, has become a patron of Disability Law Service. Inspired by the 2012 London Paralympics, Andrew has found success …
Amy was born with quadriplegic cerebral palsy and is a wheelchair user. She is hearing and speech impaired, doubly incontinent and has dysphagia requiring alternative forms of feeding (PEG). She has a learning difficulty and is unable to verbally communicate. As a result of her complex needs, she requires 24 hour support, hoist transfers and the assistance of two carers for all personal care and activities of daily living.
Amy lived in a two bedroom ground floor flat with her mother, stepfather and two twin sisters. Since 2005, the flat had not been adequate enough for Amy to manage her disabilities due to the cramped living conditions.
Amy’s parents instructed the Disability Law Service in April 2014 to help in their challenge to the Local Authority to provide Amy with suitable accommodation.
Here is Amy’s story.
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