Expert Panel

Independent Living expert panel works towards all disabled people having the same choice, control and freedom as any other citizen

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 expert panel met regularly between September 2006 and Ocotber 2007, and the minutes for each session can be read below. Since the publication of the consultation, there is no longer a requirement for the panel to meet.