Disability Rights Handbook annual online subscription
Regularly updated, digital version of the Disability Rights Handbook, in partnership with Disability Rights UK.
This service includes the full text of the Disability Rights Handbook, searchable and linked internally so you can skip to the next piece of relevant information with one mouseclick.
It is updated every two months from June 2024 to February 2025 - an invaluable service that means your online Handbook will keep pace with social security reform and changes to the law.
This is a subscription for the online version of the Disability Rights Handbook. Alternatively, you can order the Handbook in print.
A guide to benefits and services for all disabled people, their families, carers and advisers.
The handbook provides in-depth, comprehensive guidance on the benefits system, explains how social care operates around the UK and includes information about other services and resources for disabled people, it covers:
Your right to benefits
- For anyone with an illness, injury or disability
- For carers, children and young people
- For people in education or work, looking for work, not in work or in retirement
- For people injured at work or serving in the Armed Forces
- Eligibility requirements and how to make a claim
- Challenging decisions; how to appeal
Your right to care and support
- The eligibility criteria for people needing care and support
- Assessments, budgets and ways of paying for care
- Challenging eligibility and funding decisions
- Local authority duties
- Support for carers
