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Briefing: Crib sheet: Disability strategy

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A Strategy Unit has produced a report analysing what is needed to vastly improve the lives of disabled people in the UK.

What is a Strategy Unit? It's a merging of three former government units, each dedicated to pursuing policy, innovation and strategic direction.

It deals with big issues (such as social capital) and reports to the Prime Minister.

And this particular bit of work? This is Phase Two (the analytical stage) of a project that seeks to promote a society-wide transformation on behalf of and with disabled people. The challenge is threefold. How do we remove disabling environments, attitudes and social barriers? How do we provide financial and service-based support for individuals? And how can we empower disabled people so they can promote their own inclusion and rights within society? And then it asks what can and should be the responsibility of government, service providers, employers, or disabled people and their families.

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