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Improving the Lives of Disabled People

  • Submitted by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, Glasgow, Scottish Labour.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 October 2024
  • Motion reference: S6M-14893

That the Parliament understands, in line with Disability Equality Scotland, Glasgow Disability Alliance and Inclusion Scotland’s respective 2024 survey/engagement results, Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s report, Poverty in Scotland 2024, and the release of the data from Scotland’s Census 2022 on health, disability and unpaid care, that disabled people in Scotland are facing alarming and increasing poverty and inequality and, it believes, a catastrophic regression in their human rights; believes that disabled people have been forgotten by the Scottish Government, and that promises have been broken in relation to progressing an Immediate Priorities Plan to tackle need, as committed to in the Programme for Government 2023-24; commits to re-energising the long-promised disability equality plan, including meaningful actions and an effective accountability and governance framework, and pledges to support, resource and sustain investment in disabled people-led organisations, through the Equality and Human Rights Fund and others as required, to enable ongoing sharing of lived experience, representation and co-design of policies and services that lead to improvements in the lives of disabled people.


Supported by: Jackie Baillie, Claire Baker, Jeremy Balfour, Neil Bibby, Sarah Boyack, Miles Briggs, Ariane Burgess, Jackson Carlaw, Maggie Chapman, Foysol Choudhury, Katy Clark, Pam Gosal, Mark Griffin, Dr. Sandesh Gulhane, Craig Hoy, Monica Lennon (Registered interest) , Pauline McNeill, Carol Mochan, Paul O'Kane, Anas Sarwar, Lorna Slater, Alexander Stewart, Paul Sweeney, Sue Webber, Annie Wells, Martin Whitfield, Brian Whittle, Beatrice Wishart