RADAR - the disability network

Welcome to the RADAR Homepage. RADAR is the UK's largest disability campaigning organisation, with a membership of over 900 disability organisations and individual campaigners.

Our vision is a just and equal society whose strength is human difference. Our mission is to enable individuals, networks and policy-makers to do things differently.

*** Job Opportunity at RADAR: Disability Networks Manager. Click for details ***

Your views on Independent Living and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities urgently needed!

Click here to download the Questionnaire from the Office for Disability Issues

As an incentive to support this work, all replies will be entered into a draw, the winner receiving a cheque for £100!

You can send your responses by post to ODI Research, RADAR, 12 City Forum, 250 City Road, LONDON EC1V 8AF or by email to odi@radar.org.uk.  The deadline for responses is Friday, 8th October 2010.

We are doing a survey to find out more about your experiences of the benefits system. We are going to use the information we get from the survey to help the Government better understand the impact changes to benefits like Incapacity Benefit, Disability Living Allowance and Local Housing Allowance will have on disabled people. We will also use the information to make people more aware of how important benefits are.

You can take the survey here.

The survey is open to all disabled people. You can either fill it in yourself or ask someone else to fill it in for you. The survey will run until 20th October 2010. However, the sooner you reply the better. If we get a lot of responses very quickly we can pass some of this early information onto Government as we try and safeguard key disability benefits.

31/08/2010 - New blog posts (http://radarnetwork.blogspot.com/)

26/08/2010 - RADAR deeply concerned by plans to abolish Specific Equality Duties 

17/08/2010 - RADAR and Disability Alliance Statement on Direct Payments 

22/07/2010 - RADAR publishes our new report into sustainable employment for disabled people: "Supporting Sustainable Careers: What Disabled People Need to Succeed in Employment" gives disabled people a voice about the action that needs to be taken in order for them to get into and stay in the world of work. To Download a copy of "Supporting Sustainable Careers" click here. To Download an Easy-Read Version click here.

05/07/2010 - Liz Sayce, CEO of RADAR, discusses the implications of the recent budget on BBC Radio 4's You and Yours

22/06/2010 - Press Release: RADAR responds to the 2010 Emergency Budget 

18/06/2010 - RADAR begins coaching and development work with people over 50 living positively with HIV and AIDS thanks to Elton John Aids Foundation 

17/06/2010 - RADAR launches 2010 MPs' Guide on Disability at All Party Parliamentary Disability Group Reception hosted by Baroness Jane Campbell 

15/06/2010 - Obituary: Sir Peter Baldwin KCB, Chairman of RADAR 1992-1996, who passed away on 9th May 2010 aged 87, by Sir Bert Massie. 

04/06/2010 - Watch Liz Sayce, RADAR's Chief Executive, talk to GMTV about the recent decision by the Court of Protection that a lady with learning disabilities can be compelled to undergo life-saving cancer treatment on the grounds that she is incapable of making an informed decision. 

03/06/2010 - The Resistance Campaign launches. This campaign is a joint effort by Care Not Killing and Not Dead Yet UK to mobilise resistance to attempts to liberalise Britain's laws on euthanasia and assisted dying. 

02/06/2010 - Children's television presenter Cerrie Burnell to launch RADAR People of the Year Awards 2010 at BT Tower