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People with learning difficulties warned this week that the consultation on the draft Disability Discrimination Bill is inaccessible to service users.

Michelle Chinery, co-chairperson of the Learning Disability Task Force, said that the Department for Work and Pensions' so-called accessible version of the consultation was "absolutely terrible" and "not very accessible at all".

Chinery also warned that the deadline for responding to the consultation did not give people with learning difficulties sufficient time to digest the information and formulate a response.


David Congdon, Mencap's head of external relations, said the learning difficulty charity was "disappointed" the government had failed to make any accessible version of the draft bill available until nearly two months after the non-accessible bill was published.