Expert panel

The Office for Disability Issues set up an expert panel to support the work of the cross-government Independent Living Review.

Expert panel members included a range of experts on independent living, including disabled people and people from organisations of disabled people, user-led groups and service delivery organisations.

Key government departments on the ODI Board of Management were represented on the expert panel. The panel was chaired by Baroness Jane Campbell.

The Independent Living Review project team provided the secretariat to the panel and ensured that its views were reflected. The team worked with the panel chair to agree terms of reference and a proposed work programme.

The terms of reference for the expert panel were to give expert advice to the review of independent living for disabled people, which would:

• bring together the views and experience of officials from central and local government, disabled people and people from organisations of disabled people
• develop imaginative new solutions across the health, social care, transport, employment and housing interfaces
• develop thinking on the relationship between independent living and individual budgets; and
• make practical proposals for activity to support independent living.

Expert panel meetings

The dates of the meetings and the minutes of meetings which have been held are listed in the table below.

There is a short delay before we can publish minutes on the website. This is because they need to be approved and then produced in easy read format.

Meeting minutes of 22 October

PDF (October 2007) (198KB) 
Easy-read (October 2007) (1.30MB) 

Meeting minutes of 10 September

PDF (September 2007) (162KB) 
Easy-read (September 2007) (1.77MB) 

Meeting minutes of 5 July 2007

PDF (July 2007) (238KB) 
Easy-read (July 2007) (1.23MB) 

Meeting minutes of 24 May 2007

PDF (May 2007) (207KB) 
Easy-read (May 2007) (860KB) 

Meeting minutes of 28 March 2007

PDF (March 2007) (81KB) 
Easy-read (March 2007) (1.13MB) 

Meeting minutes of 15 February 2007

PDF (February 2007) (56KB) 
Easy-read (February 2007) (56KB) 

Meeting minutes of 6 December 2006

PDF (December 2006) (56KB) 
Easy read PDF (December 2006) (1.48MB) 

Meeting minutes of 30 October 2006

PDF (October 2006) (57KB) 
Easy read PDF (October 2006) (1MB) 

Meeting minutes of 11 September 2006

PDF (September 2006) (47KB) 
Easy read PDF (September 2006) (1MB) 

Find out more on the members of the expert panel