The barrage of information from the UK Election campaign and constant polling of anything that moves (or doesn’t!) continues.  Some of it is different though. The UK disability organisation and service provider Scope commissioned research of people with disabilities to see what issues are important to them and the results were published today.

An online survey of 431 people with disabilities showed that public services and benefits were the most important issues followed by social care (personal assistance and other supports for independent and community living.)  Over two thirds of the panel indicated that a political party’s policy on disability issues would effect who they voted for.   The full results of the research can be accessed here.

Scope have been running a campaign during the election entitled Polls Apart to highlight the difficulties that many people with disabilities have in casting their vote.  They are working with polling organisation Com Res to form a more permanent panel of disabled people to be polled on issues so not only at election time.

Any polling organisation interested in this type of work here? Any disability organisation interested in promoting the views of people with disabilities rather than the staff or the families of people with disabilities?