Disabled Students Allowance public consultation

Disabled students in higher education: funding proposals Download and respond to consultation This Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) consultation is the promised public consultation on proposed changes to Disabled Students Allowance (DSA). The responses will be used to help BIS to decide what help a disabled student should expect to be supplied by their HE provider and what help should be supplied through DSAs. It sets out the Government's preferred view on how support supplied by HE providers and DSAs should be rebalanced - See section 7 (NMH) and section 8 (accommodation, peripherals and consumables). If changes result from this consultation, the Government expects to implement them from the Academic Year 2016/17, which would affect students from August 2016. Existing DSAs recipients will remain on the current scheme of DSAs support. Any changes will impact new DSA applicants only. The consultation only relates to HE students entitled to receive support from Student Finance England. This consultation closes at 24 September 2015 11:45pm - See more at: www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2015/july/disabled-students-allowance-public-consultation