11.  Disabled people are widely discriminated against in most types of employment including the health and caring professions.

12.  Disabled people find that they have to put a great deal of effort into making various authorities meet their ordinary everyday needs.

13.  Disabled people should have the same rights and choices as everyone else.

14.  Disabled people, in particular, often have a greater degree of self-sufficiency than many able-bodied people however.

15.  For example, there is the restricted access to cut-price supermarket shopping that many disabled older people suffer from.

16.  In the past few weeks the government has once again blocked an attempt to give disabled people legal protection against discrimination.

17.  Increased security measures and better staffing will be particularly welcome to women, elderly and disabled people.