United Kingdom: The Independent Living Strategy, 2008
The Independent Living Strategy (ILS), published in March 2008, sets forth actions aimed at improving the choice and control disabled people have over the services they need to live their daily lives. The strategy is aimed at fostering the possibility for people with disabilities to have greater choice and control over how support is provided and to achieve greater access to housing, education, employment, leisure and transport opportunities and to participation in family and community life. In addition, the report makes proposals for the involvement of disabled people (including older disabled people) and their organizations in the implementation of the Strategy and invites responses to these proposals.