The Edward Lear Foundation is looking for disabled people to take part in a consultation for the Disability Rights Commission. The Edward Lear Foundation is a disability think-tank, independent of the Disability Rights Commission or any other organisation. This consultation is being run entirely by disabled people, with a wide range of backgrounds and experience.
We would like to hear from you if you are a disabled person, or group of disabled people and willing to talk to us about your experience. We particularly want to involve such people as older disabled people, people living with HIV/AIDS, mental health service users and people with learning disabilities.
This consultation is trying to identify the barriers faced by disabled people, as a basis for a regular survey which will enable the Commission to check whether the Disability Discrimination Act is leading to real improvements for disabled people in the areas that really matter to us.
Working with Shaping Our Lives, we are trying to assemble as diverse a group of disabled people to interview as possible, so that we get as full a picture as possible of what barriers disabled people now face in their everyday lives.
This will include people from England, Wales and Scotland, people from ethnic minorities and older disabled people as well as identifying the barriers faced by people with a large variety of impairments. We also plan to interview people whose voices are less frequently heard, such as disabled people who are asylum seekers.
If you take part, we will need about three hours of your time, to be part of a discussion group or be interviewed on your own. We will pay £30.00 plus travel expenses. (This is less than we would like, but we are limited by the budget for the project.)
