What is the purpose of the plan?
This plan is Manchester’s pledge to support disabled people in Manchester and remove barriers.
Disabled people face significant barriers, and experience disadvantage and discrimination accessing services, opportunities and facilities in Manchester. The Our Manchester Disability Plan (OMDP) is Manchester’s pledge to support disabled people in Manchester to remove these barriers so they can fully integrate into all the opportunities, facilities, activities and communities in the city.
It will do this by challenging and changing existing attitudes, with the aim of reducing the inequalities disabled people face in Manchester today. In doing this, the plan will acknowledge the many improvement projects in progress across the city, and the aim of the plan is to build on all the good practice that already exists.
It is anticipated that we will lead development of the plan initially, but it will really be driven by disabled people who live, work or study in the city, and those who visit it. They will work with other partners on the partnership board and associated workstreams mentioned further in this document to support the aims of the plan.
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