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<p>The Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance leads on policy
for children and families within DWP. To fulfil this role, the DWP works with a range
of other departments to ensure the policy we deliver for children and families is
effective. This role does not extend to coordinating children and families’ policy
across government.</p><p> </p><p>On Tuesday 25 June, the Government launched a new
cross-government approach on disability. This is guided by a vision where disabled
people can participate fully in society and that recognises the contributions that
disabled people make.</p><p> </p><p>To drive forward this approach, government will
establish a new cross-departmental disability team in the Cabinet Office, and the
Office for Disability Issues will be incorporated into the team. This move recognises
that disabled people face barriers across a wide range of aspects of their lives and
across the whole of the life course, including throughout childhood, and that coordinated
cross-government action is therefore vital.</p><p> </p><p>The new Cabinet Office disability
team will sit in the new Equalities Hub alongside the Government Equalities Office
and the Race Disparity Unit. Together they will be better equipped to understand that
people are often affected by multiple discriminations and disadvantages and to drive
meaningful progress on equality.</p><p> </p><p>The team will work closely with disabled
people, disabled people’s organisations and charities to take forward this new approach
to disability, with their views and experiences at the forefront of any new policy.</p><p>
</p><p>In addition, part of the role of the Minister of State for Disabled People,
Health and Work is to work across government to encourage the development of policies
to tackle the barriers disabled people face to realising their full participation
in society. Whilst disability policy is the responsibility of all Departments, by
working together we can improve disabled peoples’ participation, for which we are
jointly responsible.</p><p> </p>
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