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Creating a Powerful Voice for People with Lived Experience of Disability and Health Conditions
Information provided by National Centre for Independent Living - Published: 2010-09-23
Unified organisation to be known provisionally as the Disability Rights Partnership.
Disability Alliance (DA), the National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) and the Royal Association for Disability Rights (Radar) have announced that they will consult with their respective members on a proposal to create one, unified organisation to be known provisionally as the Disability Rights Partnership.
CEOs at all three organisations agree:
"Our vision is for a society in which disability rights are made real - where everyone with lived experience of disability and health conditions live equally, as full citizens. We believe that society will only change when disability is at the heart of public policy, benefiting everyone.
We also believe that this will only happen when disabled people speak for themselves and determine their own future. Our aim is to establish an integrated service for disabled people, provided by one, unified, organisation led by disabled people, by mid 2011. The Disability Rights Partnership wants to work with everyone who could be considered 'disabled people' however they view themselves."
The three organisations have been exploring the potential for closer collaboration for the past 18 months. The announcement this week that Disability Alliance's CEO is due to depart at the end of September, offered an opportunity to inject new energy into the discussions about the potential for a unified organisation and accelerated the process of consultation with members of all three organisations.
Members of the three organisations are being asked to give their views about the proposed unification by the end of September. Debates will take place at the AGMs of the three organisations to be held during the autumn. The final decision will be taken at general meetings provisionally planned for the spring of 2011.
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