Roadmap themes

Independent Living Strategy

This five-year strategy was developed with the involvement of disabled people and was published in 2008. Independent living isn't about living on your own - it's about making sure all disabled people have the same choice, control and freedom as any other citizen.

The strategy contains commitments which aim to give disabled people:

  • Greater choice and control over the support they need to go about their daily lives.
  • Greater access to housing, transport, health, employment, education and leisure opportunities and to participation in family and community life.

More information is available in the Independent Living Strategy section of the ODI website.

How does the Roadmap relate to the Independent Living Strategy?

The Roadmap complements the commitments made in the Independent Living Strategy.

You can find out which commitments are covered by which theme by looking at the bottom of each Theme page. Or you can search using this list:

1. Promoting independent living

2. Action and Learning Sites and Regional Initiatives

  • 2.1 (scoping work for two initiatives):
  • 2.1.1 (Action and Learning Sites to demonstrate redeployment of resources from professional assessment and care management to user-led support, advocacy and brokerage) - Social care
  • 2.1.2 (a regional initiative to demonstrate the efficacy of investing in independent living for older disabled people in residential/nursing care or at risk of moving into care) - Social care
  • 2.2 (following on from scoping exercise, decisions will be made concerning the design of, and investment in, the Action and Learning Sites and Regional Initiative) - Social care

3. Housing

  • 3.1 (increase the provision of housing advice and information) - Housing
  • 3.2 (update of Lifetime Homes standard and the Code for Sustainable Homes) - Housing
  • 3.3 (lifetime homes standard and the private sector) - Housing
  • 3.4 (Accessible Housing Registers) - Housing
  • 3.5 (investment to provide rapid response repairs and adaptations services) - Housing
  • 3.6 (early intervention) - Housing
  • 3.7 (disabled facilities grant) - Housing
  • 3.8 (Supporting People) - Housing

4. Transport and mobility

  • 4.1 (evidence-based strategies for enhancing personal mobility options and transport choices for disabled people) - Transport
  • 4.2 (training of transport providers) - Transport
  • 4.3 (information and confidence training for disabled people) - Transport
  • 4.4 (local transport plans and accessibility planning) - Transport
  • 4.5 (stakeholder engagement including a specific focus on harder to reach groups) - Transport

5. Health

  • 5.1 (education and awareness programme for NHS staff on increasing choice and control and Disability Equality Duty) - Health
  • 5.2 (expert Patients Programme and self management - increasing take-up of existing programmes and developing new approaches that work for disabled people (including older people) - Health
  • 5.3 (choice and control and continuing health care) - Health

6. Employment and economic wellbeing

  • 6.1 (action to improve specialist employment services for disabled people) - Employment
  • 6.2 (cross-government national strategy aimed at enabling people to remain in employment when they acquire an impairment or the condition worsens) - Employment
  • 6.3 (increase access to volunteering opportunities for disabled people) - Participation
  • 6.4 (participation in public and civic life) - Participation
  • 6.5 (investigation of impact of reforms to the benefit system, employment support programmes and charging policies within adult social care) - Employment / Living standards / Social care
  • 6.6 (charging and residential care) - Social care
  • 6.7 (the role of Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance in supporting independent living) - Independent living / Living standards

7. Personalisation, choice and control

  • 7.1 (social care modernisation programme and individual budgets) - Independent living / Social care
  • 7.2 (work with In Control Total and ensure that this initiative is linked in with the five year Strategy) - Independent living
  • 7.3 (continue to encourage and monitor take-up of direct payments by adults, particularly amongst currently under-represented groups) - Independent living / Social care

8. Support, information, advocacy and brokerage

  • 8.1 (support local organisations to develop local action plans for the mapping and provision of support, advocacy, information and brokerage services) - Independent living
  • 8.2 (commission a scoping study to assess the need for, and the costs and benefits of providing, independent advocacy when disabled people are at risk of losing choice and control) - Independent living
  • 8.2.1 (subject to the scoping study, commission research) - Independent living
  • 8.3 (user-led organisations) - Independent living
  • 8.4 (National Advocacy Qualification) - Independent living

9. Older people

  • 9.1 (develop cross-government toolkit to assist development of local IL strategies for older people) - Independent living

10. Young disabled people in transition to adulthood

  • 10.1 (transition between children's and adults' services) - Children's outcomes
  • 10.2 (the Transition Support Programme for 14-19 year olds as proposed by the HM Treasury and Department for Education and Skills report 'Aiming High for Disabled Children' including children with complex health needs) - Children's outcomes
  • 10.3 (delivering the cross-government strategy for post 16 learners with learning difficulties/disabilities) - Children's outcomes / Post-19 education and training participation
  • 10.4 (public consultation on specialist disability employment programmes for disabled people who have complex barriers to entering and retaining employment) - Employment
  • 10.5 (reduce the proportion of young people aged 16-18 who are not in education, employment or training) - Children's outcomes
  • 10.6 (support young disabled people to become independent users of transport) - Transport
  • 10.7 (meeting the housing needs of young disabled people) - Housing
  • 10.8 (support young people to become active members of their local community) - Participation
  • 10.9 (scoping study on individual budgets for disabled children and young people) - Children's outcomes

11. Disabled parents

12. Measuring progress

  • 12.1 (report on the ILS as part of the ODI annual reporting process) - Independent living
  • 12.2 (Life Chances departments will review progress in time for the next Spending Review and performance framework whether future action to deliver outcomes is needed) - Independent living
  • 12.3 (Government will review the need for legislation if sufficient progress has not been made against the outcomes by 2013) - Independent living