Following consultation with disability organisations, Ekklesia is conducting a survey of people with mental or physical health conditions in order to design a replacement for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). Ekklesia consider the WCA to be too flawed and broken to be satisfactorily fixed. It needs replacing, and the people best able to do this are those who are affected by long term illness.
Ekklesia has commissioned experienced independent researcher Stef Benstead to carry out this research, in collaboration with other grassroots disability groups.
The survey is designed for people with long-term illness to contribute their views on what affects their ability to find and keep work, what support they need and what a proper assessment process should look like.
The survey results will be analysed and written up into a report that will present an alternative to ESA and the WCA, based on the majority views given in this survey.
For further information and to complete the survey, visit: www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/22112, or email: [email protected]