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<p>The Hate Crime Action Plan 2016 included a number of commitments to</p><p>address
disability hate crime. These commitments were:</p><ul><li>To look at current best
practice examples in tackling disability hate crime and work with partner organisations
and the police to promote safety for disabled people.</li><li>To continue to work
with community groups to raise awareness of hate crime among disabled people and increasing
the availability of third party reporting venues, in particular at locations and through
services that are used by disabled people.</li><li>The police will lead work with
partners and disabled people’s groups to develop resources targeted to raise awareness
of hate crime among carers and families of disabled people to encourage reporting.</li><li>The
National Policing Lead to assess proactive recording pilots to see if there is anything
to be learned that will increase the recording of disability hate crime.</li></ul><p>In
October 2018, the Government published a refresh of the Action Plan, which included
the following further commitments on disability hate crime:</p><ul><li>Department
for Transport committed, in the July 2018 Inclusive Transport Strategy, to run a public
awareness raising campaign to increase disability awareness amongst all transport
passengers.</li><li>Continue to help the charity representing people with disfigurement,
Changing Faces, in its work with social media companies.</li><li>The Department of
Health and Social Care is leading a long-term study of the impact of integrated support
for people with learning disabilities, including on the occurrence of disability hate
crime.</li><li>Work with community groups to raise awareness of disability hate crime,
and consider the best options for third party reporting centres for disabled people.
We will work with the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, and others, to
understand where these services already exist, and how best we can promote their availability.</li><li>Increase
and broaden our engagement with stakeholders representing disabled people.</li><li>Draw
from ongoing doctoral research into police responses to learning disability hate crime
underway at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth.</li></ul><p>The
2018 Hate Crime Action Plan refresh also includes a number of broader actions addressing
all forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime. These include:</p><ul><li>Publication
of the Online Harms White Paper, which sets out plans hold social media companies
to greater account;</li><li>A review by the Law Commission into the coverage and approach
of current hate crime legislation; and</li><li>A wide-ranging national hate crime
communications campaign to publicly address hate crime and make clear that it is unacceptable
to target people on the basis of their identity.</li></ul>
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