Disability equality survey

23 June 2008

Are you a disabled person using social care services? Have you used social care services in the past?

If so, we need your views in our new survey. The information you provide will be confidential and your answers anonymous.

• Fill in our online disability equality survey

This survey is also available in large print and as an easy to read survey with pictures:

• Get the survey in a different format

The survey will be open until 25 July 2008.

Fill in this survey if you are:

A disabled person

There is no age limit on disability equality – the law applies equally to older people who have become disabled people in later life as it does to younger adults. We want replies from:

• People with learning difficulties
• People who use mental health services or experience mental distress
• Deaf and hard of hearing people
• Blind and partially sighted people
• People with physical impairments
• People with long term health conditions, such as diabetes, epilepsy, HIV and dementia

Using a "regulated" social care service

You can be paying for your own care or receiving care through social services. We want to hear from you if you are using or have used one of these services:

• Home care
• Residential or nursing care homes
• Adult placement
• Respite care
• Direct Payments or an Individual Budget to meet social care needs

Why are we doing the survey?

We are producing a bulletin for social care providers to help them make their services contribute towards disability equality.

This is part of a series of bulletins – "Putting people first: Equality and diversity matters".

To write the bulletin we need the views of disabled people about disability equality and social care.

If you are interested in receiving a copy of the bulletin:

• Telephone Robert Marshall on (020) 7979 2101
• Email robert.marshall@csci.gsi.gov.uk

If you are a service provider there are a number of ways you can get involved in the disability equality bulletin.

• Find out about the disability equality bulletin on our website for care professionals

Filling in the survey

The information you provide in the survey is confidential and your answers will be anonymous. We will not use any names in our final report.

• Read our policy on how we handle personal information.  

If you need help completing our survey, or wish to discuss your participation:

• telephone Lucy Wilkinson on (0113) 220 4646
• email lucy.wilkinson@csci.gsi.gov.uk