The National Carer Organisations responded to this Scottish Government consultation on future changes to the mobility component - moving around and planning a journey - within Adult Disability Payment.  Adult Disability Payment has replaced Personal Independence Payment for working age people with a disability or health condition who are of working age.

This response reflects many years of consultation on the development of the new Adult Disability Payment and brings evidence from unpaid carers and updated informal polling data and builds upon previous consultation responses regarding this issue

The National Carer Organisations are Carers Trust Scotland, Carers Scotland, the Coalition of Carers in Scotland, MECOPP, Shared Care Scotland, and the Scottish Young Carers Services Alliance.

Together we have a shared vision that all of Scotland’s unpaid carers will feel valued, included and supported as equal partners in the provision of care. The National Carer Organisations aim to achieve this through the representation of unpaid carers and giving them a voice at a national level.

We believe we can deliver more for unpaid carers by working together to share our knowledge and experience, and by focusing our collective efforts on achieving improvements in areas of policy and practice that are of greatest concern to unpaid carers.