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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.

Disabled people face barriers, inequality and poorer outcomes across all areas of life. These are inequalities that Glasgow City Council has the power to immediately mitigate and reduce - working with DPOs!

For decades, disabled people have been striving to influence change: to eradicate barriers, accelerate equality and realise our Human Rights. It is clearer now more than ever that disabled people’s equality will benefit the whole of society.

Quiz the candidates 2021 at GDA's Hustings on 20 April 2021 from 10-1.30pm.

The pandemic has taken a gruelling toll on those who were already worst off. We must act now to supercharge disabled people’s voices, and lived experience expertise: to mitigate widening inequalities, and ensure disabled people are never again left behind.

This Manifesto outlines our calls to action in the run up to the 2019 UK General Election. There were 5 ‘asks’:

End austerity and universal credit
Increase funding for social care
Embed in UK law the UN convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Involve disabled people in designing an accessible, sustainable environment
Protect disabled people’s rights through Brexit

GDA’s contribution to the Fairer Scotland for Disabled People Debate held on 28th March 2019.