The Office for Disability Issues

Leadership. The Office for Disability Issues leads the government's vision of achieving equality for disabled people.

Building skills. We guide government departments to find practical ways to involve and engage disabled people to meet departmental strategic objectives. We share our knowledge and experiences, and provide tailored advice.

Innovation. We test new policy ideas and new ways of delivering services. If you are a policymaker or communicator, we can support you to include and represent disabled people in your work.

• New Ambassadors for the Strengthening DPULOs Programme
  ODI are recruiting additional Ambassadors to work with community organisations to enable disabled people to play an active role and have a stronger voice in their local community (10 May 2012)
• Elected office hopefuls to get online training
  Disabled people seeking elected office or public appointments will have access to online training as part of new proposals (25 April 2012)
• Fulfilling Potential discussion themes published
  A number of major themes on how to improve the lives of disabled people have emerged from the Fulfilling Potential discussion (23 March 2012)
• Project Search evaluation report published
  Project Search is an internship model to help people with learning disabilities and autism to get and keep a paid job. Research findings from the demonstration year are now available (28 February 2012)
• New guides to help stop disability hate crime
  New disability hate crime guides have been launched to help raise awareness of disability-related harassment and hate crime and how to report it (22 February 2012)

How ODI can help

If you wish to contact the Minister for Disabled People, please follow the instructions on the Department for Work and Pensions website.