I have now read the complete response by government to the consultation on PIP Assessment, moving around activity. One of the major things that smack me directly in the chops is the fact that only one of the civilian main stream charities claiming to represent the amputee and limb impaired population of the UK have bothered to make a representation on behalf of its membership. A supposedly major forces representing the interests of the amputee population, should we believe its own blurb, is the Associate Parliamentary Limb Loss Group (APLLG), yet they are not listed as a respondent in the published document. Unless this Parliamentary Group has another pathway of communication not available to everyone else in the country we must assume they did not value the need to make representation on behalf of the group of peers they claim to represent and support. Despite this seemingly lack of interest from the National Groups, and here I exclude the Joint Committee on Mobility for Disabled People (JCMD), who did respond, Two of the Service User Groups, groups who lack the finance and skills base pool of expertise, did manage to make representations on behalf of the local populations (Roehampton and Colchester). I applaud them both. Even the former military represented here by BLESMA responded to the consultation which is primarily applicable to the civilian population. I was one of the 1,013 who felt the need to respond to this consultation as an individual, along with 129 organisations who also responded. We shall never know if those organisations who claim to represent our peer groups, responses could have made a significant difference to the outcome.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:14:04 +0000
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