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<p>The Government is committed to ensuring that disabled people can play a full role
in society, with a manifesto commitment to publish a National Strategy for Disabled
People. All equality and discrimination laws and obligations continue to apply during
the Coronavirus pandemic. We worked with the Royal National Institute of Blind People
(RNIB) to transcribe gov.uk pages on general coronavirus guidelines and financial
advice into spoken word formats. This guidance is available on RNIB phone lines. This
ensures that visually impaired people without access to the internet are able to receive
the same advice as sighted people with internet access.</p><p>We recognise that some
people with disabilities face particular difficulty in social distancing, or are impacted
by the reaction of others to their inability to socially distance. We are considering
how we ensure that disabled people are able to socially distance in order to protect
themselves from Coronavirus and from adverse attention from people who perceive that
they are not adhering to guidelines on social distancing.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
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