Radar works for an equal society, where everyone living with disability or health conditions can fully participate
Radar led the disability sector’s influence on the Equality Act – securing changes including no health questions before job offer and new rights to aids and adaptations for disabled children – as well as successfully opposing attempts to water down the Disability Discrimination Act
Radar promotes human rights: see our guide to the UN Convention on Human Rights.
Radar has set out our progress over the years and the remaining challenges in ‘Making disability rights real now’. We work to close gaps of inequality – in education, employment, hate crime, accessibility and more
- Disabled people are significantly more likely to experience unfair treatment at work than non-disabled people. In 2008, 19 per cent of disabled people experienced unfair treatment at work compared to 13 per cent of non-disabled people. (Fair Treatment at Work Survey 2008)
- Around a third of disabled people experience difficulties related to their impairment in accessing public, commercial and leisure goods and services. (ONS Opinions Survey 2009)
- Children with a learning disability are often socially excluded and 8 out of 10 children with a learning disability are bullied. (Mencap)
- Around three in four people believe there is some level of prejudice in Britain towards disabled people. (Office for Disability Issues)
We offer a national campaigning voice – and opportunities for members to speak directly to decision makers. We believe the voice of disabled people and our organisations can stimulate change. We support the All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability, chaired by Baroness Jane Campbell and Anne McGuire MP
We work with corporate, public and voluntary sector partners to develop and promote real world solutions
Disability activists and champions are changing our world for the better. We celebrate great achievements – like Nadeem Badshah, who as a campaigning journalist courageously wrote about controversial issues like forced marriage and disability in Asian media; or Wycliffe Noble, who changed the building regulations and the accessibility of our society
The Disability Hate Crime Network won our People of the Year ‘stop hate’ award, for highlighting the menace of hate crime and persuading police and politicians to take it seriously.
Arts and media help change attitudes. Radar celebrates ground-breaking work like Lizzie Emeh’s highly successful music that challenges perceptions of learning disability, Bobbie Baker’s visual diary, depicting the experience of mental illness as it happens, day by day and new media stories like Channel 4′s Cast-Offs
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