Imagine how ashamed of my body I would have been as a girl, being told that it was offensive enough to merit removal
Category Archives: disability
Thank you, disability campaigners, for the difference you’ve made to my life
Without people like Jane Campbell, who fought for the Disability Discrimination Act 20 years ago, I can’t imagine where I would have been today
Creating better world for disabled and carers
The challenge is creating a society fit for disabled people, people who live with long-term conditions and unpaid carers to enjoy their right to live well.
Warning of impact of £73m cuts on Norfolk’s disabled people
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Mark Harrison, CEO of Equal Lives. Picture: ANTONY KELLY
Norfolk County Council needs to make £111m of savings over three years
A disability rights organisation has warned that worst case scenario cuts of £73m in spending on adult social care could leave some of Norfolk’s most vulnerable people “dejected and abandoned”.
Norfolk County Council needs to make £111m of savings over three years, so every committee has been asked to plan to be spending 25pc less in three years time.
That would save £169m, so not all the cuts and savings proposed will happen, but councillors wanted options so they have some element of choice.
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I was 11 months old when the Disability Discrimination Act became law, 20 years ago this week. As I approach my 21st birthday, it’s sobering to think that when I was born, there wasn’t a single piece of legislation protecting the rights of disabled people in the UK and that as I lay on the floor with my soft toys, people just like me – but infinitely more courageous – were out on the streets fighting to be recognised as equal. From where I sit now, it is hard to believe.
It is even more sobering to consider what my life may have been like without the act. Of course it’s impossible to know, yet I am certain that I would not have fared as well as I have.