The government has been accused of “hiding behind false claims” and failing disabled people who are being targeted by disability hate, while dodging a meeting with a leading disabled people’s organisation.
The Home Office’s commitment to tackling disability hate crime has been questioned in National Hate Crime Awareness Week, after it said it was too busy to meet disabled campaigners over their calls for action.
Inclusion London, which leads the Justice for Disabled Victims campaign, had told the Home Office that far more needed to be done to address disability hate crime, and repeatedly requested a meeting to discuss strengthening the law.
It believes that not enough has been done in the government’s crime and policing bill to strengthen the law, and has also contacted MPs and peers to pass on its concerns.
Although one extension of the law on disability hate crime is set to be added to the bill, disabled people’s organisations say this is not enough.
A civil servant from the Home Office’s Neighbourhood Crime Unit told Inclusion London last month that the government was determined to tackle disability hate crime, and that it was considering further action.
They said the government was “considering how we can strengthen our engagement” with the disability sector, but they added: “Due to diary pressures, we are unable to offer a meeting.”
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