The Office for Disability Issues

Leadership. The Office for Disability Issues leads the government's vision of achieving equality for disabled people.

Building skills. We guide government departments to find practical ways to involve and engage disabled people to meet departmental strategic objectives. We share our knowledge and experiences, and provide tailored advice.

Innovation. We test new policy ideas and new ways of delivering services. If you are a policymaker or communicator, we can support you to include and represent disabled people in your work.

• Fulfilling Potential discussion themes published
  A number of major themes on how to improve the lives of disabled people have emerged from the Fulfilling Potential discussion (23 March 2012)
• Project Search evaluation report published
  Project Search is an internship model to help people with learning disabilities and autism to get and keep a paid job. Research findings from the demonstration year are now available (28 February 2012)
• New guides to help stop disability hate crime
  New disability hate crime guides have been launched to help raise awareness of disability-related harassment and hate crime and how to report it (22 February 2012)
• Help available for Fulfilling Potential discussion events
  Help, advice and funding are now available for disabled people’s organisations to run their own events to help shape the new Disability Strategy (4 January 2012)
• Contributions wanted to shape Disability Strategy
  ODI Director Jeremy Moore has called for contributions from deaf and disabled people from all walks of life to shape the new cross-Government Disability Strategy (13 December 2011)

How ODI can help

If you wish to contact the Minister for Disabled People, please follow the instructions on the Department for Work and Pensions website.