Plain-English, practical and UK-specific: your rights, the scripts, the template letters and the escalation routes.
A thin layer of ice can turn a dropped kerb into a wall and a trip to the pharmacy into house arrest. Councils have a legal duty to keep highways safe from snow and ice. Here’s how to hold them to it, and claim the winter payments you’re owed.
Declare a medical condition and many travel insurers refuse you, exclude it or hike the price. The Equality Act says they need relevant, reliable evidence to do that, and FCA rules say they must point you to specialist cover. Here’s how to insure yourself, and your wheelchair, without being fleeced.
In June 2026, up to 959,662 referrals that may be for an ADHD assessment were open in England, and waits run to years. If you live in England, the law lets you choose who assesses you. Here’s how to ask your GP, and what to do when they say no.
An estimated 2 million people in England and Scotland reported long Covid in early 2024, and up to 390,000 people in the UK may have ME/CFS. Too many are still told to push through. The law, and NICE, say otherwise. Here’s how to use both.
England is the only UK nation still charging for prescriptions, at £9.90 an item, and the list of conditions that makes you exempt was agreed in 1968. Here’s who gets free prescriptions, how to claim a MedEx, and how to avoid a £100 penalty.
Around 633,000 people in the UK live with epilepsy, yet many are still labelled a “health and safety risk” before anyone asks a single question. Here’s what the law says about work, driving, free travel, prescriptions, seizure first aid, and being thrown out after a seizure.
Around one in five UK students has a known disability, and in 2024 the High Court upheld a ruling that a university’s discrimination contributed to a student’s death. Here’s the money, the law and the complaint routes that make adjustments happen.
The Care Act lists looking after your children as an outcome councils must weigh, yet research found disabled parents too scared to ask for help in case they were judged unfit. Here’s what the law actually gives you, from social care to the school gates.
One in six working people with diabetes feel their employer has discriminated against them, says Diabetes UK. From hypo breaks and DVLA insulin rules to school healthcare plans and pump-safe airport security, here’s what the law actually gives you, and how to make it stick.
Around 982,000 people in the UK live with dementia, and more than a third have no diagnosis. Families routinely miss a council tax exemption, a benefit that isn’t means-tested, and the one legal document that has to be signed early. Here’s the checklist.
Steam trains, heather moorland and medieval abbeys don’t sound step-free. More of the North York Moors is within reach than you’d think, if you know which stations have steps, which trains need ten days’ notice, and where the Changing Places toilets are.
Beach wheelchairs you can borrow, free carer entry at heritage sites, review sites written by disabled visitors, and the planning ritual that saves a trip. A practical guide to leaving the house for fun — the part of access nobody budgets for.