Summary
The Northern Ireland Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035 aims to improve the lives of people who are Deaf and disabled people, their families and carers so that they can play a full and active role in all aspects of our society.
Documents
- NI Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035
- NI Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035
- NI Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035 - EasyRead
- NI Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035 - EasyRead
- NI Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035 consultation - Equality impact assessment
- NI Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035 consultation - Rural needs impact assessment
- NI Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035 consultation - Child rights impact assessment
- NI Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035 consultation - Data protection impact assessment
- NI Executive Disability Strategy 2025-2035 consultation - Privacy notice
Consultation description
The Department for Communities has led the development of this Disability Strategy on behalf of the Executive and with extensive input from other departments. It has been developed in partnership with Deaf and disabled people and their representative organisations and is targeted at the areas of greatest need.
The draft Strategy and its eight outcomes, set out an ambitious programme of work that will lay a solid foundation for addressing the main societal barriers that inhibit the full participation and inclusion of Deaf and disabled people in society. It will require Government, Deaf and disabled individuals, and their representative organisations to work effectively together to ensure its success.
Engagement events
To provide further information to anyone who wishes to contribute to the consultation, we have arranged public engagement events taking place across Northern Ireland and online. You can find a list of these events and register below.
Registration is necessary for attendance to allow us to manage capacity and early registration is advised.
You can register for any of the events at NI Executive Disability Strategy public consultation events
| Location | Venue | Date & Time |
|---|---|---|
| Derry~Londonderry | St Columb’s Park House 4 Limavady Road Waterside Londonderry BT47 6JY | Monday 2 February 11am - 1pm |
| Enniskillen | Fermanagh House Broadmeadow Place Enniskillen BT74 7HR | Tuesday 10 February 11am - 1pm |
| Virtual | Microsoft Teams | Wednesday 11 February 11am - 1pm |
| Craigavon | Craigavon Civic & Conference Centre 66 Lakeview Road Craigavon BT64 1AL | Friday 20 February 11am - 1pm |
| Virtual | Microsoft Teams | Wednesday 25 February 11am - 1pm |
| Belfast | MENCAP 5 School Road Newtownbreda Belfast BT8 6BT | Thursday 26 February 11am - 1pm |
| Ballymena | Braid Civic Arts Centre 1-29 Bridge Street Ballymena BT43 5EJ | Tuesday 3 March 11am - 1pm |
British Sign Language (BSL) and Irish Sign Language (ISL) video summaries
BSL
ISL
Privacy, confidentiality and access to consultation responses
For this consultation, we may publish all responses except for those where the respondent indicates that they are an individual acting in a private capacity (e.g. a member of the public). Responses from organisations and individuals responding in a professional capacity may be published. We will remove email addresses and telephone numbers from these responses; but apart from this, we will publish them in full. For more information about what we do with personal data please see our consultation privacy notice
Your response, and all other responses to this consultation, may also be disclosed on request in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR); however, all disclosures will be in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
A summary report and analysis of consultation responses will be published on the DfC website.
If you want the information that you provide to be treated as confidential it would be helpful if you could explain to us why you regard the information you have provided as confidential, so that this may be considered if the Department should receive a request for the information under the FOIA or EIR.
Ways to respond
Department for Communities
Level 7
Causeway Exchange
1-7 Bedford St,
Belfast
BT2 7EG