Fulfilling potential

Working together to empower disabled people

Fulfilling Potential: emerging findings

On 1 December 2011, the government announced a discussion with disabled people to gather suggestions for a new cross-government disability strategy.

The Government’s ambition is to enable disabled people to fulfil their potential and have opportunities to play a full role in society. To realise this ambition, we want to tackle barriers to realising aspirations and individual control, as well as change attitudes and behaviour towards disabled people.

The new strategy will build on previous strategic thinking, including the Life Chances report, the Independent Living Strategy and the Roadmap 2025, as well as the UK’s commitment to the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People.

The discussion exercise ran until Monday 12 March 2012 with the ODI receiving over 500 responses from individuals, disability organisations and contributions from events across the UK.

Emerging themes from the exercise were discussed at an event attended by disabled people, disabled people’s organisations, and officials from across Government on Thursday 22 March 2012.

Read the emerging themes:

We are aiming to produce a full summary of the responses received at the end of April. The Disability Strategy will be published in the late Spring.