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The Disability Rights Taskforce worked to remove the inequalities experienced by disabled people in society, beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

In July 2021, the Disability Equality Forum published the ‘Locked Out: Liberating Disabled People’s Lives and Rights in Wales beyond COVID-19’ report

The report highlighted inequalities experienced by disabled people in society, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic.

A part of the Welsh Government’s response to the report was to establish the Disability Rights Taskforce.

To address the issues highlighted in the report, the Taskforce worked collaboratively with:

  • people with lived experience and expertise
  • disabled people’s organisations
  • Welsh Government policy leads
  • other interested bodies/organisations

We worked to a common understanding of the Social Model of Disability, human rights, lived experience and co-production.

Priority areas

Our priority areas of work were: 

  1. embedding and understanding of the Social Model of Disability (across Wales)
  2. access to services (including communications and technology)
  3. independent living: social care
  4. independent living: health
  5. travel
  6. employment and income
  7. affordable and accessible housing
  8. children and young people
  9. access to justice
  10. wellbeing (as a workshop)

The Disabled People’s Rights Plan has been shaped by the work of the Disability Rights Taskforce and its working groups.