DPOs take control after Tomlinson ‘shuts down his own forum’
Disabled people set up their own national network after the minister for disabled people shut down advisory forum after just three meetings.
The Disability News Forum reports that following the repeated cancellation of the Governments DPO Forum meetings, some of the forum’s members have now set up their own replacement, DPO Forum England.
Members of the new forum include the Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel, the Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA), Inclusion London, The Alliance for Inclusive Education, Equal Lives, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and Disability Positive in Cheshire.
Mark Harrison, from ROFA, said the government’s forum – which he said was not a DPO forum at all because some of its member organisations were not led and controlled by disabled people – had not met since its third meeting last October.
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