About the Database
The database holds information about organisations who work to a Social Model of Disability
The Social Model is a positive approach to disability; it explains how society disables people more than any impairment, learning difficulty or mental health condition a person may have.
"Society is shown to disable people who have impairments because the way it has been set up prevents disabled people from taking part in every day life" Disability Wales Policy statement:the Social Model of Disability 2004
The new Disability Equality Duty (Under the Disability Discrimination Act 2005) has provided an opportunity for organisations to fully embrace the Social Model of Disability, implementing it within policy and practice, promoting the equality of opportunity and social inclusion for disabled people.
"The incorporation of the Social Model of Disability into mainstream policy is perhaps the most important development in the policy context for disabled people since the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act in 1995. This signals a move away from paternalised approaches to disabled people. Historically, this paternalism has resulted in the provision of services and benefits that have imposed dependency on disabled people, rather than enabling their active participation as equal citizens"
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Information will be continually added to this database
If you have any information that should be highlighted as best practice please inform Disability
Click here to email Miranda Evans (Disability Equality Officer)
Telephone: 029 20887325
Address: Disability