Richard Knight
speaker
74 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2015
Richard Knight’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, it's certainly interesting.
I think also I enjoyed the visual side of it.
The grid method is the thing that appealed to me because I can finally visualise the way that it could be.
I won't go as far as saying enjoyable, not yet.
It said there were 10 million disabled people in the UK and illustrated the social isolation and discrimination they faced by claiming 90% of people had never invited a disabled person into their home
The article was illustrated with a picture of a woman in a wheelchair.
Ten million seemed a high number to me, as it's roughly one in six of the population.
I wonder how disability was defined in this article.
Well, Sally pointed us to this Guardian piece which claimed there to be 10 million disabled people in Britain.
And it turns out that number does come from an official source.
It comes from the Office for Disability Issues.
And that number in turn is taken by them from the DWP who publish a large annual report called the Family Resources Survey.
Well, they phone up a sample of people and ask them a whole bunch of questions about their circumstances, their employment, their income and so on.
They also do have a chapter on disability.
So they ask people, are you disabled?
Yes, they do.
They say, are you disabled according to the definitions applied by the Disability Discrimination Act?
The Act does give a very specific definition.
definition of what it is to be disabled it says you are disabled if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities and then in clarifications further on it says day-to-day activities might include eating walking washing shopping
And relevant capacities are mobility, manual dexterity, speech, hearing, seeing and memory.
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