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Disability Capital Conference

‘London, the equal city’

Date: Monday 8 October 2007
Venue: ExCel Centre, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL
Time: Registration 9am to 9.45am, conference starts at 9.45am promptly and will finish at 5.30pm

Watch a British Sign Language video featuring information about Disability Capital Conference.

Disability Capital 2007, the Mayor's Deaf and disability equality conference, is one of the UK's biggest and most important strategic and policy conferences and this year will focus on ‘London, the equal city’. The programme featured debate and discussion about rights and equality - including discrimination law, legal recognition of BSL, the diverse history of disabled and Deaf Londoners, a right to independent living and eugenics and genetic rights. Delegates were able to find out more about disability and Deaf equality in London and engage with Mayoral policies and strategies.

• Webcast
• About the speakers
• Access at the venue
• Sponsors

Webcast

For anyone unable to attend, the conference was webcast live with separate streams for BSL and palantype.

Disability Capital 2007 webcast streams

Speakers

• Ken Livingstone - Mayor of London
• Peter Hendy - Transport commissioner
• Anne McGuire - Minister for Disabled people
• Michael Lynch - Chief Executive of the Southbank Centre
• Teresa Blankmeyer-Burke - Philosopher and Bioethicist at Gallaudet University
• Edwin Black - renowned investigative journalist and author
• Baroness Jane Campbell of Surbiton DBE - Chair, Disability Committee CEHR
• Roger Berry MP
• Caroline Bernard - Policy and Communications Manager, Counsel and Care
• Mark Wheatley - Executive Director European Union of the Deaf
• Penny Beschizza - Deaf Positive
• Lee Jasper - Director Equalities and Policing, Greater London Authority
• David Ruebain - Levenes Solicitor
• Selina Aktar - Mental Health Activist
• Tara Flood - Director, Alliance for Inclusive Education
• Michelle Daley - Researcher on disabled people and the Transatlantic slave trade
• Frances Elton - Researcher on BSL London dialect
• Lucy Mason - Helping Empower Youth Activism
• Peter Gichura - disability activist and asylum seeker

Access at the venue

Disability Capital is a conference which aims to be inclusive and accessible as we can possibly make it. The conference will include comprehensive communications support and the venue will provide a wide range of access and support facilities.

Detailed information about getting to the venue.

Detailed driving information about getting to the venue.

Dial-a-ride

Dial-a-ride is a multi occupancy door to door transport service for disabled people who cannot use buses, trains and the Tube.

London Dial-a-Ride will be providing door to door transport to Dial-a-Ride members to and from Disability Capital 2007 on request.

Dial-a-Ride members should contact their usual booking number to book their journeys to the conference.

For further information on how to join Dial-a-Ride if you are not yet a member visit www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/3222.aspx

Sponsors

• Transport for London
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Office for Disability Issues

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