UCU: The Disabled People's Manifesto

Motion

Motion text: Congress calls on all political parties to commit to implementing the Disabled Peoples Manifesto including the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled People into UK law.
This includes the following:
1. Bringing into force all provisions of the Equality Act, including the socio-economic duty.
2. Introduce a mandatory two-week timeframe for reasonable adjustments and an enforcement framework which does not fully depend on an individual.
3. Full implementation of the BSL Act.
4. An election fund to support reasonable adjustments for Disabled candidates at local and national elections.
5. Introduce non-means tested legal aid for all discrimination cases.
6. Introduce a national requirement for all newly built homes to be accessible and 10% to be wheelchair accessible.
Congress calls on UCU to work with Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPOs) to campaign actively for the implementation of the Disabled Peoples Manifesto within the lifetime of the next Parliament.