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Bruce Calderwood, the director of the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) is supported by a team of four senior managers. The ODI reports to a cross-government ministerial group and the ODI board of management.
The ODI board of management oversees the work of the Office for Disability Issues and reports to the Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People ministerial group chaired by Anne McGuire, Minister for Disabled People.
The ODI board is responsible for developing and delivering the strategy for improving the life chances of disabled people, setting key milestones aimed at steady progressive reform to 2025 and advising ministers regularly.
The Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People ministerial group was set up as part of the recommendations of the Strategy Unit report 'Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People'. The group oversees and steers the government strategy to achieve equality for disabled people by 2025.
The Office for Disability Issues also supports Anne McGuire in her role as Minister for Disabled People, Parliamentary Under Secretary in the House of Commons.
The group is responsible for ensuring that departments implement the recommendations made in the report, and contribute collectively to the achievement of our vision of equality for disabled people by 2025.
The senior management team is made up of Bruce Calderwood (ODI Director), Richard Timm (Deputy Director, Policy), Mary Helson (Deputy Director, Independent Living), Sally Witcher (Deputy Director, Stakeholder Communications), and Karina Stibbards (Deputy Director, Strategy).
The ODI works with Equality 2025. Equality 2025 is a group of 23 disabled people who act as a link between disabled people and government. Equality 2025's main aim is to carry out the promise to disabled people that they will have a direct voice into government, and so to help design policies and services that disabled people need.
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