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People with Disabilties
Under the last Labour government the UK signed up to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2007. We could be proud in that we not only signed the convention, we moved quickly to ratify and even raised a issue when it was felt that Brunei Darussalam failed to make clear under what exact legal grounds it would ve justified not to apply the convention. The convention was a remarkable



What Labour said
Manifesto_Equal_Society People with Disabilities

Over the last seven years, people with disabilities have been failed by the Conservative government.

People with disabilities have been vilified with divisive rhetoric like ‘scroungers’ and ‘shirkers’. In this climate, recorded disability hate crime has increased.

Last year the UN published a report concluding that the Conservative government had committed “grave, systematic violations of the rights of persons with disabilities”.

Currently, 4.2 million People with disabilities live in poverty in Britain, and the disability employment gap remains stubbornly high. Labour believes in the social model of disability – that it is society which disables people, and it is our job to remove those barriers.

The previous Labour government signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The next Labour government will sign the UNCRPD into UK law.

Labour will act to tackle discrimination, remove barriers and ensure social security delivers dignity and empowerment, not isolation and stigma. Labour will legislate to make terminal illness a protected characteristic under the Equality Act.

Autism covers a wide range of conditions that reflect neurological differences among people. We will work with employers, trade unions and public services to improve awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace and in society.

Labour will give British Sign Language full recognition as a recognised language.

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