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EMPOWERMENT your Local Services A range of practical guides to support, inform and enable disabled people processes – taking an active part in the services they receive. www.radar.org.uk
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EMPOWERMENT
your Local Services
A range of practical guides to support,inform and enable disabled people
processes – taking an active part in the services they receive.
www.radar.org.uk
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1 Communities and Local Government (2007) ‘Best Value User Satisfaction Surveys 2006-07 – General Survey National Report’.
2 www.dotheduty.org
3 Department for Children, Schools and Families (2006) Briefing Information Sheet – School Governing Bodies: Roles, Responsibilities and Membership, London: DCSF.
1 DCLG (2009) ‘Empowering communities to influence local decision making: A systematic review of the evidence’
2 DRC Disability Briefing 2007.3 Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (2005) ‘Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People’.
2 DRC Disability Briefing 2007.3 Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (2005) ‘Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People’.
1 This section draws heavily on DRC (2006) ‘Equal Treatment: Closing the Gap – a formal investigation into physical health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities and/or mental health problems’.
2 This section draws heavily on DRC (2006) ‘Equal Treatment: Closing the Gap – a formal investigation into physical health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities and/or mental health problems’.
3 DRC (2007) Making the duty work – a guide to the Disability Equality Duty for disabled people and their organisations’.
1 DRC Disability Briefing 2007.2 Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (2005) ‘Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People’.
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3 Department for Communities and Local Government. www.dclg.gov.uk4 In Wales, the number of people at or above retirement age is projected to rise by 11 per
cent over the next 20 years, compared to 3 per cent overall (Wanless Review of Health and Social Care in Wales, 2003). There are very few statistics at all on housing and dis-ability in Wales and it has therefore been impossible to include comparable data in this paper.
5 Wanless, D. (2006) ‘Securing Good Care for Older People – Taking a Long Term View’, Kings Fund.
6 Ipsos/Mori on behalf of the DRC, EOC and Carers UK (2006) ‘Public Attitudes Towards Social Care’.
7 Department for Communities and Local Government (2006) ‘Housing in England 2004/5’.
8 Department for Communities and Local Government (2006) ‘Housing in England 2004/5’.9 DRC (2007) ‘Making the duty work – a guide to the Disability Equality Duty for disabled
people and their organisations’.
1 DRC Disability Briefing 2007.
2 DRC Disability Briefing 2007.
3 Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (2005) ‘Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People’.
4 From ‘Principles of inclusive design’ (2006) Commission for the Built Environment.
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1 Taken from the DRC Disability Briefing 2007.2 RADAR (2009) ‘Doing the Duty – The Disability Equality Duty: impact so far and legal
enforcement’.
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