Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Disability Alliance, formed in November 1973, is the campaigning wing of The Disability Alliance Educational and Research Association. It has grown into a national federation of over 250 organisations of and for disabled people, who joined together to press for the introduction of a Comprehensive Disability Income Scheme. Peter Townsend was a founding member of the federation and these papers provide an insight into the running of the organisation, the development of social policy on disablement and the course of political activism on disablement issues from the 1970s to the mid 1990s. This collection is not currently digitised and is available as a hard copy only. If you are interested in a project which involves the digitisation of this collection, please contact our Collections team at collections@ukdataservice.ac.uk. We'd be delighted to work with you in enhancing this collection. Main topics: Residential care of the disabled; pressure groups; disabled; physically disabled; mentally disabled; social policy; social security; social security benefits; social welfare; social justice; social disadvantage; care of the disabled; disabled facilities.

This study is a cross-national analysis of committee papers.