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NCIL, RADAR and Disability Alliance members approve merger.

 Taken from Disablego.com

Three of the country's leading disability organisations have agreed to merge within months.

Members of the National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL), RADAR and Disability Alliance (DA) backed the merger at separate annual general meetings held over the last fortnight.

The new charity - Disability Rights UK - will be a disabled people's organisation (DPO), will be led by a disabled person, and will be run and controlled by disabled people, with disabled people making up at least three-quarters of its board members.

The final approval for the merger came this afternoon at NCIL's annual general meeting (agm) in south London, with 11 votes in favour and just one abstention.

DA's members had voted unanimously in favour at their agm, while just one RADAR member voted against the plans.

Mike Smith, NCIL's chair, assured his members that achieving "meaningful" independent living for disabled people would be one of the new organisation's four core "tenets".

Disability Rights UK will also focus on promoting disabled people's leadership and control, breaking the link between disability and poverty, and campaigning for disability equality and human rights.

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