human rights

Following the threat of direct action against EHRC who had promised to speak to me before Christmas but still hadn't they have now telephoned me to arrange a meeting in the Midlands with DPAC and asked what would be the most important thing we would want them to do. I said that this should be maintaining or improving access to independent living, choice and control for disabled people as I think that more or less sums up what the problems with all the cuts are including WCA etc

They told me a lengthy list of things they are currently doing plus dome planned things they will be doing including monitoring specific local councils so suggested Kensington and Chelsea due to removal of nighttime care as now a standard practice and Birmingham moving to extra-critical care only.

Not 100% sure that EHRC will be an enormous amount of help but think they should indeed be supporting disabled people to have human rights and just wish it wasn't so difficult to get them to do anything.

Linda