University Challenge

Disabled people and their families are under terrible strain at the moment. Our access to support and services we need to function at a basic level has been eroded over the last ten years of austerity. And things are getting worse. According to the Office for National Statistics, ⅔ victims of Covid19 in the UK are disabled people. Lockdown seems to be enabling further disadvantages for disabled people. I want to look at the bigger picture. Where can this fundamental support lead for people to whom so much of the world is closed off? For me it was going to university, and it was life-changing.