Papworth Trust report looks to inform debate for disabled people ahead of EU referendum.
Papworth Trust hopes their report, entitled The EU Referendum: Disability and the European Union, will inform debate and elevate the issues for disabled people to consider ahead of June’s referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union.
The report contains information about the relationship between the EU and disability in the UK as well as what the two rival campaigns are saying ahead of the vital decision.
Papworth Trust chief executive Vicky McDermott said:
“Although this is a decision that could have significant consequences for disabled people, almost nothing has so far been made available publicly about the potential impact of the vote on the 12 million people with a limiting long term illness, impairment or disability who live in the UK.
This report has been produced with this in mind in order to help inform the debate.
“What is clear is that there are significant pieces of legislation that affect disabled people which could be scrapped if we left the EU and replaced with something else.
Equally, there are arguments that the UK treats its disabled people far better than any other Member State and so we could do a better job at legislating to protect disabled people, if we were free from the EU.
“It’s vitally important that disability is discussed before the vote, so that disabled people are fully aware of the impact on their lives of both results.”
