Project overview

• Adopt a holistic, personalised approach to wellbeing support

• Ensure the integrated health and social care systems meet the needs of disabled people

• Recognise that disability is a spectrum and can vary widely. Therefore society, policies and practices need to account for this diversity

• Nurture collaboration between government, non-profit organisations, Disabled Person's Organisations and the disabled community

• Establish advocacy to drive change, improve services and raise public awareness of the contributions of disabled people

• Adhere to 'nothing about us without us' to ensure disabled people are included in all decisions that affect their lives

• Secure a seat at the highest decision-making table for disabled people to ensure their voices and needs directly influence policies and programmes that affect them

• Ensure disabled people have choice, autonomy and control of the services they require

• Foster inclusive and supportive community networks

• Use inclusive language to promote a more respectful and accurate representation of disabled people

• Challenge societal perceptions of disability

• Ensure adequate and sustained funding to enable disabled people to live full lives of their choosing and to participate in and contribute to society
  
  

Recommendations

• Establish a dedicated UK Ministry for Disabled People

• Align the UK disability system with the Enabling Good Lives approach

• Address the continuing disparities in health and social care for disabled people 

• Establish a National Advocacy Framework

• Improve collaboration

• Change negative societal perceptions of disability