GDA comment on delays to the implementation of the States’ Disability and Inclusion Strategy

Four years after the Strategy was unanimously passed by the States of Guernsey there is little tangible progress on the core Strategy workstreams, including the establishment of disability discrimination legislation and the establishment of an Equality and Rights Organisation. In addition, little has been achieved with regard to raising awareness about disability and changing attitudes towards disabled people throughout society– a core aim of the Strategy and one of the few obligations, placed upon governments by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the Convention), which requires immediate action.

GDA Comment on delays to the implementation of the States – Jan 2018 fin…