Dear Adrian Wyhatt
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support and
intervention in my case. Your Granddad sounds like a cool and honest guy who
had a lot of love and time for others. I think you have your Granddad's
spirit.
Thank- you
An Ally to FREEOURPEOPLE
Colin Revell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Whyatt" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>; "Mark Shrimpton" <[log in to unmask]>;
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<[log in to unmask]>; "Dave Barber" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [danmail] Re: Your business with the Disability Rights
Commission: Mr Colin Revell
> Dear Mr Shrimpton
>
> Whilst I appreciate that you handle over 100,000 calls
> a year and that you can ill afford to spend too much
> time on any one case, it is all too obvious that your
> organisation is not representative of the NEURODIVERSE
> MAJORITY AMONGST DISABLED PEOPLE.
>
> You need to examine thoroughly how your procedures
> affect neurodiverse people and how to provide them
> with a proper and efficient service.
>
> Last year as a member of the Civil Service Disability
> Network I saw a DRC video on disability which had
> apparently won awards.
>
> Though up to 40% of the population and rising have
> some form of neurodiversity (Dyslexia, Dyscalculia,
> Dyspraxia, Dysgraphia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
> Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD),
> Asperger Syndrome, High-functioning autism,
> hyperlexia, etc) your discussion in this video fails
> even to mention this.
>
> This is unacceptable.
>
> How many of your commissioners and senior executives
> have any of these conditions?
>
> Though the figure of 6% of people with disabilities
> being in wheelchairs is often quoted, this far smaller
> group got loads of coverage as always in the DRC
> video. The official symbol for disability remains,
> invariably, the wheelchair.
>
> Colin Revell fought for over 5 years just to get a
> neurodiversity diagnosis. NHS guidelines state 6
> months maximum for outpatients.
>
> As for the local government ombudsman, in my
> considered view he fails utterly to follow the
> principles of the Whyatt Report (on which the
> legislation to introduce the Ombudsman was based). I
> should know: my grandfather, Sir John Whyatt, wrote
> it.
> He was famously fair.
>
> He would turn in his grave at the idea of anyone from
> a disadvantaged group being denied proper care by the
> local authorities.This is Colin's situation.
>
> I have my first,preliminary appointment with the
> Dyscovery Centre,Cardiff, where Colin was finally
> diagnosed this Tuesday.My medical records indicate I
> first asked for a referral for Dyspraxia on 04 August
> 1999.
>
> I can not imagine you treating a wheelchair user,a
> limbless person, a deaf person or a blind person with
> such contempt.
>
> Colin has my full support as a neurodiverse martyr
> against the DRC's apparent impairmentism and
> neurotypicalism.
>
> Re-double your efforts Colin!
>
> I would be more than happy to meet with you to discuss
> the case and how to educate your workforce in how best
> to meet the needs of neurodiverse people and to combat
> discrimination against neurodiverse people in general
> throughout the UK.
>
> That is why I have to support Colin on this.
>
>
> Yours sincerely
>
> Adrian Whyatt, Dyspraxia Foundation Adult Support
> Group National and London Treasurer
>
> --- ColRevs <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
> 17/12/02
> >
> > Mr Shrimpton, DRC
> >
> > You stated the following...."Disability Rights
> > Commission currently deals
> > with over 110,000 calls/year to its helpline.
> > Similarly, the Casework Team
> > is dealing with very high volumes of cases. It is
> > not fair to our many
> > customers to dedicate substantial resources on a
> > regular basis to one
> > customer, whose issues we cannot resolve and seem
> > generally vexatious."....
> >
> > You can't come-out with a generalised statement that
> > a customer is a
> > vexatious complainer without having the evidence
> > and substance to back up
> > your generalisation, in which I feel offended and
> > feel that the DRC are
> > discriminating against me without lawful
> > justification.
> >
> > As you can see from my e-mails yesterday I'm very
> > angry at the DRC and the
> > people whom work within this organisation. You and
> > your officers have a poor
> > understanding of anti-oppressive practices.
> >
> > I feel victimised due to me enforcing my basic human
> > rights as a disabled
> > person whom is being discriminated by the various
> > 'public-authorities' in
> > which I've complained to you. You have failed to
> > justify to me your reasons
> > for not investigating my complaints.
> >
> > The only excuse you have put forward is of one of
> > lack of resources, but
> > this does not justify the DRC stating that I'm a
> > vexatious complainer and
> > there is no substance to my complaints.
> >
> > How do you know when you have not carried out any
> > investigations?
> >
> > I also believe that you are protecting these 'public
> > authorities' I've
> > complained against, especially the local Government
> > Ombudsman and as an
> > organisation you are condoning discrimination and
> > victimisation, in which I
> > find unacceptable and abusive, under the Human
> > Rights Act.
> >
> > I want to make a further complaint to your Chair and
> > other Senior Executives
> > and I will be taken this matter further and
> > discussing with my peers within
> > the disabled people's movement.
> >
> > I will also be taken further legal advice from a
> > human rights barrister to
> > take action against the DRC under the Human Rights
> > Act for abusive and
> > discriminatory
> > treatment and behaviour towards me in an inhumane
> > and degrading way.
> >
> > I will also asking my advisor to write to my local
> > MP to make a complaint to
> > the Parliamentary Ombudsman.
> >
> > If you think this matter is forgotten and at an end
> > then you have another
> > thing coming. I will not be threatened by the DRC or
> > any other Government
> > organisation. I'm not a 'victim' for your own
> > personal pleasure.
> >
> > I'm not going to be bullied by the DRC and it's
> > officers. I have basic human
> > rights and I will do everything in my powers to make
> > sure that I receive
> > 'justice' and with my disabled peers we will not
> > allow disabled people to
> > have our 'voices' silenced by your organisation or
> > any other 'quango'.
> >
> > We all have a democratic rights to expect to a
> > better service from the DRC
> > and have protection against discrimination, but if
> > these decisions are being
> > made on economic grounds, then the DRC have no-place
> > within the human
> > rights agenda of disabled people and should be seen
> > for what they are as a
> > 'token-gesture' by the 'NEW RIGHT' politicians with
> > 'hidden-agendas'.
> >
> > I for one are not fooled by your 'mask'. I don't
> > know how you and your staff
> > sleep at night knowing that there are millions of
> > disabled people being
> > 'socially and economically excluded'.
> >
> > All you can do is bully disabled people like myself
> > for enforcing our human
> > rights. Then as a human rights activist, then you
> > try to 'demonise' me and
> > others as vexatious complainers.
> >
> > 'Get-Real' and get out of your ivory tower and see
> > what oppression disabled
> > people are experiencing in the U,K and the global
> > world, and how do you
> > respond ? You try and silence my and others 'voices'
> > and threaten me with
> > the following comments....
> >
> > "I must now ask you to stop contacting the DRC
> > Helpline or any Casework
> > colleagues. If you feel you cannot comply with this
> > instruction, I will be
> > forced to consider action that will restrain you
> > from making that contact."
> >
> > Do you think other disabled people and I are going
> > to accept you oppressive
> > behaviour ? As I siad yesterday I will discuss all
> > the issues within your
> > e-mail with other disabled people within the
> > movement and I for one won't
> > take this lying down.
> >
> > Yours Sincerely
> >
> > Mr Colin Revell... your e-mail included below...
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Shrimpton" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:42 AM
> > Subject: Your business with the Disability Rights
> > Commission
> >
> >
> > > Dear Mr Revell
> > >
> > > Your business with the Disability Rights
> > Commission
> > >
> > > On the afternoon of Thursday, 12th December, the
> > Casework Management Team
> > met to discuss the 19 referrals you have asked us to
> > consider since we
> > opened our doors for business in April 2000.
> > >
> > > None of the issues you have raised have produced a
> > successful outcome.
> > That is because they have largely been outside of
> > the scope of the
> > Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and, therefore,
> > the remit of the
> > Disability Rights Commission. Where the matters you
> > have raised do fall
> > within scope of the Act, it appears that service
> > providers have made
> > reasonable attempts to address your concerns.
> > >
> > > The Disability Rights Commission currently deals
> > with over 110,000
> > calls/year to its helpline. Similarly, the Casework
> > Team is dealing with
> > very high volumes of cases. It is not fair to our
> > many customers to
> > dedicate substantial resources on a regular basis to
> > one customer, whose
> > issues we cannot resolve and seem generally
> > vexatious.
> > >
> > > For this reason a decision has been made by the
> > management team not to
> > devote further resources to investigating your
> > recent allegations. All
> > current files registered in your interest will,
> > therefore, be closed.
> > >
> > > Regrettably, I accept and support that decision
> > and have instructed the
> > DRC Helpline and Casework Teams accordingly.
> > >
> > > I must now ask you to stop contacting the DRC
> > Helpline or any Casework
> > colleagues. If you feel you cannot comply with this
> > instruction, I will be
> > forced to consider action that will restrain you
> > from making that contact.
> > >
> > > Yours sincerely
> >
> === message truncated ===
>
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