Nearly 18,000 disabled people with high-support needs rely in the Independent Living Fund to live with choice and control in life, rather than going into residential care or being trapped at home.

 

In March 2014 the Minister for Disabled People announced that the ILF will be closing on 30 June 2015. The funding and responsibility of ILF care and support needs will then transfer to local authorities in England and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

 

I am co-sponsoring an Early Day Motion (655) which supports the campaign to save the ILF - please ask your MP to join me in supporting it.