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The Disability Rights Commission
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) closed on 28 September 2007. Its responsibility for helping secure civil rights for disabled people has transferred to the new Equality and Human Rights Commission which opened for business in 1 October 2007.
The Disability Rights Commission website
Further information about the DRC and what it did can be accessed via its website, which is still available though no longer updated. It includes:
- information about the DRC's role, functions and powers
- DRC publications
- a copy of the DRC's Strategic Plan
- information about the Disability Discrimination Act and the cases taken by the Commission under the Act
- statistics on disabled people in Britain
- links to other relevant organisations
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