Welcome to the Disability Agenda, the product of the Disability Debate. The Agenda sets out what we believe are the chief public policy challenges for the coming decade and the action required to meet them.
Double think? Commitment to independent living and reduced services
Author: Liz Sayce, Chief Executive, RADAR
The disability movement seems, at first glance, to have won the argument on independent living. Everyone (or almost everyone) – Government, social services organisations, disabled people – agrees that services to support disabled people should be based on choice, independence and control. The only problem is the gulf between rhetoric and real experience.
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