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Disabled People in Glasgow and Scotland have felt deprioritised and dehumanised increasingly over decades and even more so since the last General Election. Successive policies and Governments have failed to tackle our poverty and inequality and the dire situation facing disabled people has been supercharged by national policies and global events e.g. austerity, the pandemic and the cost of living crisis.

Read our 2024 Manifesto and Asks to learn more about what disabled people are demanding this election.

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Read our response here: https://gda.scot/resources/gda-response-to-scottish-governments-a-human-rights-bill-for-scotland-consultation/ We strongly support the incorporation of all of our international humanrights treaties, in particular the UNCRPD, into Scots Law. Building…

GDA members welcome the FM’s announcement yesterday during the Programme for Government to reopen the Independent Living Fund on a phased approach within the next…

Disabled People’s Organisations in Scotland wrote to the First Minister on the 4th September 2023, to urge him to use the new parliamentary session to…

The Scottish Human Rights Commission, together with a coalition of Scottish Disabled People’s organisations, including GDA, warns that disabled people are experiencing ‘unrelenting attacks on…