Whether it is at home, at work or during all other parts of life, Labour Students' Disabled Students Campaign wants to ensure that the rights of disabled people are upheld.

• 22% of respondents in a recent survey had experienced harassment in public in relation to their impairment
• By the time they are 30, one in three disabled people is expected to be earning less than people their age
• Barriers to education mean that disabled people are more than twice as likely as non-disabled people to have no formal academic or vocational qualifications
• Disabled people are four times more likely to suffer sexual abuse

Although there is far more to do, this Labour Government is the first administration for a long time to start tackling the discrimination that disabled people face in their day-to-day lives. Labour has:

• introduced a series of policies to protect people from discrimination on the grounds of their disability, to help more disabled people find and stay in work, and to support those whose disabilities mean that they are unable to work at all
• strived to ensure that people are aware of the full range of benefits and services that the Government provides to assist them in their daily life
• outlawed disability discrimination and established the Disability Rights Commission
• put more disabled people in employment than ever before
• extended the Disability Discrimination Act to cover a further 7 million jobs and 600,000 disabled workers

However, there is of course so much more that needs to be done. The Government recognises this and we have an important role to play in ensuring that disabled students on our campuses are not left to underachieve, and not make the most of their university experience.

For more information on any aspect of the Disabled Students Campaign, e-mail our Disabled Students Officer, Mike Joslin, at ds@labourstudents.org.uk.