User-led service providers need more support from the Government if its commitment to ‘independent living’ for disabled people is to be achieved

Many ‘vulnerable groups’ will be especially hard hit by public service budget cuts, none more so than disabled people. So an inquiry by the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on Human Rights into the implementation of the right of disabled people to independent living is timely. Peter Beresford gave evidence to the inquiry and here discusses what more the government needs to do to support disabled people