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Anne McGuire is the Minister for Disabled People based within the Department for Work and Pensions. Anne is responsible for disability legislation, disability rights and independent living funds.
Principle that policies should be developed through direct engagement with disabled people and organisations representing disabled people: with people whose lives policies affect, to identify barriers and address these barriers.
The ODI is hosted by the Department for Work and Pensions, a department committed to promoting opportunity and independence for all, helping individuals achieve their potential through employment and working to end poverty in all its forms.
This is a government website for information relevant to disabled people on rights, benefits entitlements, home and housing options. The `Disabled People' and `Caring For Someone' sections provide information for the public on financial support, rights, and health issues, all in one place.
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and 2005 sets out a legal framework of civil rights for disabled people. It means that disabled people now have a set of rights which they can enforce.
Enforced on 4 December 2006, the DED addresses the inequalities disabled people face in their day to day lives and requires every public authority to give due regard to disability in carrying out their functions.
ODI consultations involve disabled people and feedback helps to shape government policies and improve services in the delivery of equality for disabled people.
Public authorities (such as government departments, councils, hospitals and schools) are required to publish Disability Equality Schemes that set out how they will carry out their disability equality duty, monitor, report on progress and how they have involved disabled people in developing their schemes.
ODI research gives the latest on ODI-related themes such as young people, independent living, human rights, employment and older people.
This is a non-departmental public body made up entirely of disabled people. Equality 2025 acts as a conduit between government and disabled people across the UK, feeding in disabled people's views.
A government initiative aiming to ensure disabled people are properly considered in the development and production of government communications.
The ODI’s ‘Improving Information’ project looks at how disabled people's access to information on public services can be improved. In principle, high quality public services should be inclusive and accessible and a key part is good information provision.
Independent living is about disabled people having choice and control over the support they need to go about their daily lives and any practical assistance people need should be based on their own choices and aspirations.
The Independent Living strategy sets out a five-year plan that seeks to realise the Government’s aim that all disabled people (including older disabled people) should be able to live autonomous lives, and to have the same choice, freedom, dignity and control over their lives as non-disabled people.
Individual budgets aims to give people more choice and control over the services they use.
Published early 2005, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit report: ‘Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People’, sets out the government’s key aims on how to improve equality for disabled people in Britain.
The ODI newsletter that keeps you up-to-date on ODI disability-related news and informs on what the government is doing in delivering the 2025 disability equality vision.
The Office for Disability Issues was set up to help government deliver on the commitment made in the report, 'Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People'.The ODI acts as a champion of disabled people within government and we work with all departments to help them better understand and meet the needs and aspirations of equal members of society.