DIAL UK News - Funding Crisis

Funding Crisis is threatening services run by Disabled People across the UK

Publication date: 08/06/2006

Last month DIAL UK announced to the network that it has had to make staff redundant due to a funding crisis. It has been brought to our attention that more and more Disability Organisations have had to make staff redundant following a funding crisis In the sector.
It has been announced that The National Centre for Independent Living have issued staff with redundancy notices after they did not have adequate funds to meet its current levels of operating costs after its Department of Health (DH) Development Grant fund ended.

Half of the Centres for Independent Living have reported that all or part of their funding was under threat or has been in the last year.

Also the British Council of Disabled People has announced that it could no longer participate in government consultations as a result of having to cut staff due to loss of funding.

London’s leading organisation of disabled people GLAD also appears to be on the verge of collapse after all its staff were made redundant, after the Association of London Government confirmed it had withdrawn GLAD’s core funding. GLAD had six months from September to show “significant improvements” in how it was spending its grants.

Campaigners are concerned that the Government will not deliver on policies laid out in the Prime Ministers Strategy Unit report
“Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People”, which calls for an organisation run by disabled people in each local authority.