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The public inquiry scrutinising the UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has published a list of areas it may investigate, with the word ‘disability’ not having a single mention in the document.
The news is despite disabled people making up 60% of Covid deaths between January and November 2020, and a campaign by the deafblind charity Sense for the inquiry to focus on the impact of the public health crisis on disabled people and their families.
The draft terms of reference (TOR) put forward by the government were revealed on Friday, with the consultation open until next month.
The two-page document reads: “The aims of the inquiry are to examine the COVID-19 response and the impact of the pandemic in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and produce a factual narrative account.
“[This includes] in relation to central, devolved and local public health decision-making and its consequences […] how decisions were made, communicated and implemented; […] shielding and the protection of the clinically vulnerable [and] restrictions on attendance at places of education.”
The news is despite disabled people making up 60% of Covid deaths between January and November 2020, and a campaign by the deafblind charity Sense for the inquiry to focus on the impact of the public health crisis on disabled people and their families.
The draft terms of reference (TOR) put forward by the government were revealed on Friday, with the consultation open until next month.
The two-page document reads: “The aims of the inquiry are to examine the COVID-19 response and the impact of the pandemic in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and produce a factual narrative account.
“[This includes] in relation to central, devolved and local public health decision-making and its consequences […] how decisions were made, communicated and implemented; […] shielding and the protection of the clinically vulnerable [and] restrictions on attendance at places of education.”
Covid inquiry fails to explicitly mention disability once as it consults on draft terms of reference
The public inquiry scrutinising the UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has published a list of areas it may investigate, with the word ‘disability’ not having a single mention in the documen…
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