Here is the list of past APPDG events. Click on the date for the notes.
2010/2011
Dilnot Commission report on the funding of care and support
Speakers: Andrew Dilnot, Dame Jo Williams and Lord Norman Warner
Dilnot PowerPoint Presentation
Dilnot Commission Letter to Prime Minister
Dilnot Final Minutes of Meeting
Digital Britain: Inclusion of disabled people in the digital age
Speakers: Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for digital services; Nigel Lewis (AbilityNet and One Voice for Accessible ICT Coalition)
Law Commission: a new adult social care statute
Speakers: Paul Burstow MP, Social Care Minister; Frances Patterson QC, Public Law Commissioner; Mike Smith (EHRC Commissioner and NCIL Chair); Emily Holzhausen (Carers UK)
Equalities: impact of government policies on equalities
Speakers: Rob Berkeley (Runnymede Trust); Marije Davidson (Radar); Katherine Hill (Age UK).
Welfare Reform
Speakers: Maria Miller MP, Minister for Disabled People;
Access to Elected Office
Speakers: Lynne Featherstone MP, Equalities Minister; Maria Miller MP, Minister for Disabled People; Marie Pye, Cabinet Councillor in Waltham Forest; Baroness Warsi, Conservative Co-Chair; Baroness Brinton, Chair of the Liberal Democrats Diversity and Engagement Group.
Universal Credit
Speakers: Lord Freud, Welfare Reform Minister; Ruth Scott (Scope); Neil Coyle (Disability Alliance)
The Future of Social Care Funding
Speaker: Andrew Dilnot
The Impact of the Comprehensive Spending Review on Disabled People
Speakers: Maria Miller, Minister for Disabled People; Anthea Cox (Learning Disabilities Alliance); Nigel Meager (Institute of Employment Studies)
The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – a strong legacy for disabled people?
Speakers: Baroness Grey-Thompson; Shaun Cove (Government Olympic Executive); Chris Holmes (LOCOG)
The Year Ahead – with Maria Miller MP, Minister for Disabled People
Radar is grateful to the Royal Mail Group for their support of the secretariat for the APPDG between June 2010 and July 2011.
Other events
Speaker of the House Reception ‘An Accessible Democracy’
23 November 2010 [Invitation only]
Parliamentary Reception ‘Financial Independence of disabled people’
Supported by the HSBC [Invitation only]
17 June 2010
2009/2010
An Accessible Democracy
With Sean Anderson and Neil Adams (Promote the Vote), Jenny Watson (Electoral Commission) and John Bercow (Speaker of the House)
Disabled People’s Priorities for the New Parliament
With Disability Spokespersons Jonathan Shaw MP, Mark Harper MP and John Barratt MP
DWP Review of Employment Support for Disabled People
With Rebecca Sudworth (DWP)
UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities
With James Woolfe (Office for Disability Issues) and Neil Crowther (Equality and Human Rights Commission)
