The Department of Work and Pensions has a lot of useful resources-

Its resource centre contains brochures and booklets which you can download in pdf format

Its professionals and advisers' section contains much more detailed and explicit info about disability benefits

Its statisitics and research section contains statistics on DLA and other benefits.

The Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board contains an interesting report on The Special Rules as well as a number of updates on health related topics.

The DWP site contains the Reported Decisions of the Social Security and Child Support Commissioners and Neligan's Digest which contains a summary of improtant reported decisions of the Social Security Commissioners.

The Tribunals service site contains helpful information about launching an appeal.

The Directgov site has a section on Disabled Student's Allowance and on Direct Payments

The Directgov site also has sections on council tax reduction for disabled peopleand on VAT relief on products and services for disabled people.

Blue Badge Parking

Direct Gov's blue badge map page indicates blue badge parking bays around the country together with maximum time limits.

Charity sites

The RNIB site has guides on claiming Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance.

The RNID site has fact sheets on Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance

Age Concern has a factsheet on Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance.

Directories

Ableize Disability Resources is a comprehensive UK directory focusing on disability issues.

Media sites

The BBC's Ouch! site is full of disability related features and information

The Guardian is the best of the UK newspaper sites

The New York Times contains a comprehensive health section.

The Washington Post has a well-populated and lively discussion feature

Accessible web design sites

The Web Accessibility Initiative provides detailed info on web access issues and a very useful bulletin board

The Web standards project explains better than we can why we're committed to supporting web standards for this site- it's also a good starting point for other web builders who want to build valid pages.


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