A Strategy for Equality

1996

Overview

The 1996 Report of the Commission on the Status of People with Disabilities, entitled A Strategy for Equality, was a milestone. The Commission's Report was the outcome of a major consultative process involving people with disabilities. Among other results, the Commission's report let to the Government policy, announced in 2000, and given legal effect in the 2005 Disability Act, to oblige mainstream public services to include people with disabilities.