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Disabled people are invisible in Britain today, poll shows
Disabled people are largely hidden in day-to-day life despite the public believing that they should be given a level-playing field of opportunity, a new poll shows.
In an opinion survey commissioned from ComRes by the charity Scope, 91 per cent of people stated that they believed disabled people should have the same opportunities as everyone else.
Worryingly, nearly 40 per cent of people who are not disabled and do not have a disabled family member do not know any disabled people.
90 per cent of Britons have never had a disabled person to their house for a social occasion and only a fifth (21 per cent) have ever had the chance to work with a disabled colleague.
The results demonstrate that disabled people are already relatively invisible in daily life, says Scope.
Concern is also growing that the forthcoming Government spending cuts, which are likely to hit disabled people among the hardest, may end up pushing them into further social exclusion and even cut them out of society altogether.
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September 3, 2010
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