17 Apr 2024
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Disability Unit
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Disability Action Plan
The Disability Unit and Equality Hub are implementing a Disability Action Plan addressing barriers faced by disabled people across transport, housing, employment, and public services. The plan is supported by related bills on autism identification and learning disability access to services. Current status involves developing delivery plans with concrete timelines, as parliamentary scrutiny has identified gaps in housing policy and slow progress on the 2018 Inclusive Transport Strategy target of equal access by 2030.
19 Mar 2024
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Bill proceedings
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The Disability Action Plan calls on the Disability Unit to publish research into the accessibility of private sector products and services in spring 2024 and to improve its understanding of the barriers disabled consumers face. It is right that policy options should be evidence-based However, despite the hold ups owing to legal proceedings, it is unacceptable that three years after the publication of the National Disability Strategy, rather than seeing tangible improvements in their lives, di...
The Disability Action Plan calls on the Disability Unit to publish research into the accessibility of private sector products and services in spring 2024 and to improve its understanding of the barriers disabled consumers face. It is right that policy …
30 Jan 2024
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Bill introduced
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Autism (Early Identification) Bill — First reading
A Bill to make provision about the training of teachers in relation to the early identification of autism; and for connected purposes.
10 Feb 2022
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Bill stage
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Learning Disabilities (Access to Services) Bill [HL]
First Reading 11:49:00 A Bill to make provision for a review of access for people with learning disabilities to healthcare and other services, to make provision for a review of the provision of learning disability services across Government, to make …
18 Nov 2016
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Bill stage
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Disability Equality Training (Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Drivers) Bill
Second Reading 13:59:00 Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish) (Lab): I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. [Interruption.] Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs Eleanor Laing): Order. I rise to delay the hon. Gentleman for a few …
24 May 2011
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Bill introduced
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Autism (Quality Standards) Bill — First reading
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to make a referral to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to develop and publish quality standards for autism spectrum disorders;