The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wants to make its Disability Commissioner, Lord Shinkwin, redundant. Its aim, the EHRC argues, is to do away with the services of one disabled person so that it can develop that strand of its work more generally. But in a new report published this week for the think tank Localis my co-author, Liam Booth Smith, and I argue that the EHRC in particular, and the government in general, needs more not less focus if it is going to unlock the real potential of the 12 per cent of us who are disabled.
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Why is the Equality and Human Rights Commission playing down the role of disabled people?
Disabled people have much to give to society. So why has the EHRC abolished its Disability Commissioner?
Francis Davis
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