Concerns over lack of targets in Welsh Government's disability rights plan

Concerns over lack of targets in Welsh Government's disability rights plan

Mark Isherwood, chair of the Senedd’s cross-party group on disability, raised concerns that many long-term objectives in the draft plan lack firm commitments

'No targets, no teeth and no accountability': ministers' disability rights plan criticised | West Wales Chronicle : News for Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Swansea and Beyond

Campaigners warned it will be “impossible” to hold the Welsh Government to account on progress against its disabled people’s rights plan due to a lack of concrete targets. Mark Isherwood, who chairs the Senedd’s cross-party group on disability, raised concerns that many of the long-term objectives in the draft 10-year plan lack firm commitments. He said Natasha Hirst, who was part of ministers’ disability rights taskforce, pointed to a lack of f…