Policy paper

Disability Action Plan

The Disability Action Plan sets out the immediate actions the government will take in 2024 to improve disabled people’s everyday lives and lays the foundations for longer-term change.

From:
Disability Unit, Equality Hub, and Mims Davies MP
Published
5 February 2024

Documents

Disability Action Plan

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-4675-8, E03061238 02/24, CP 1014

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Annex A: list of actions

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Disability Action Plan (PDF)

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Disability Action Plan (Easy Read)

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Disability Action Plan (large print)

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Disability Action Plan (Welsh)

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The Plan sets out actions the government will take forward with disabled people, their organisations, and other government departments and public service providers in the following areas:

  1. Support disabled people who want to be elected to public office.
  2. Include disabled people’s needs in emergency and resilience planning.
  3. Include disabled people’s needs in climate-related policies.
  4. Improve information and outcomes for families in which someone is disabled.
  5. Make playgrounds more accessible.
  6. Help businesses understand the needs of and deliver improvements for disabled people.
  7. Explore if the UK could host the Special Olympics World Summer Games.
  8. Support people who have guide and assistance dogs.
  9. Help the government measure how effective its policies and services are for disabled people.
  10. Research issues facing disabled people in the future.
  11. Make government publications and communications more accessible.
  12. Improve understanding of the cost of living for disabled people.
  13. Promote better understanding of United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) across government.
  14. Monitor and report progress of the Disability Action Plan.

We have developed this new Disability Action Plan to complement:

  • the National Disability Strategy which sets out the long-term vision to transform disabled people’s lives for the better
  • other significant UK Government reform programmes and specific work to continuously improve equal access to opportunities, in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
Published 5 February 2024