SIR –‘Equal pay for equal work’ has been a campaign slogan for many years. Recent statements by a local MP demand we restate the justice of the slogan.
Philip Davis MP appeared to imply that a disability entailed a lesser work value is offered by disabled people to employers.
The evidence of the work of Bradford Alliance on Community Care and others carried out under the EmployDisability programme tells a very different story to the assertions of the MP.
The local Adult Services and Bradford & Airedale NHS draft policy Independence Inclusion & Support lists as a priority improved opportunity for disabled people to have employment, not as second-class workers, but to ensure that individuals “are recognised as equal and can enjoy the same life opportunities, chances and rights as their non-disabled peers and neighbours”
Perhaps Mr Davis will take time-out to hear the voice of disabled people at either the consultation event on Wednesday, July 6, or at the Disabled People’s Forum celebration event on Wednesday, July 20, which are both at Carlisle Business Centre?
Cath Stevenson, chairman, and Emmerson Walgrove, deputy chairman, Bradford & District Disabled People’s Forum, Carlisle Business Centre
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