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Disability Rights UK Response to Disability Action Plan

Disability Rights UK Response to Disability Action Plan

The Disability Action Plan sets out the “immediate actions the government will take in 2024 to improve disabled people’s everyday lives and lays the foundations for longer-term change”.

The BBC has produced a Podcast Access All :The Disability Action Plan Explained.

Disability Rights UK ( DRUK ) in response to the government’s plan says.

“The action plan follows a National Disability Strategy which was ruled unlawful by the High Court in January 2022, a now demoted Disability Minister post which was left empty for a week in December, and the UK being the first country to be investigated by the UN due to “grave and systemic violations” of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, where Disabled people are significantly more likely to be living in poverty, and households with at least 1 Disabled adult or child face extra costs of £975 a month on average, we need transformative change.

The actions set out in the plan are weak, and too many of the proposed “short-term” actions are not short-term at all – introducing reviews or proposals for 2025, after the General Election when no action can be guaranteed.

The Disability Action Plan is about what non-disabled policy makers are willing to offer us, it is not a plan which protects or enhances our rights or demonstrates an understanding of the social model of disability. It is not what we need, rather it is what a disablist government has grudgingly offered. We need co-produced transformation as detailed in the Disabled People’s Manifesto, incorporation of the UNCRPD into domestic law, an end to the social care crisis and the inhumane DWP policies and processes.”

View DRUK News Article in full.

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