However, the fact that half of parents with a learning disability havetheir children taken into care still raises alarm bells. This is not toimply that individual prejudice is at work.
Indeed, we will never achieve equality for disabled people if we thinkof discrimination only in those terms.
The new disability equality duty, which comes into force in December'should help all public authorities tackle institutional discrimination.For example, do the provision of services, policies and funding streamsin relation to support for families delay or promote the vision ofequality for disabled people that I am sure we all share?
Agnes Fletcher, assistant director, communications, Disability RightsCommission.
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