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1991Manchester City Counciladopts the social modelof disability.1992The first Disability Awareness Day inWarrington is held. Still running today, thishas become Europe’s largest (voluntaryled)disability event and has encouragedand empowered other like-minded peopleto establish similar events in places as faraway as Cornwall, Rotherham, Wigan,Knowsley, Crewe, Gibraltar and India.1500sIn England, large numbers ofdisabled people become vagrantsand beggars after the dissolutionof monasteries and hospitals byHenry VIII destroys their socialand practical support.1995Dave Thompson and Jackie Rotherhambecome the first disabled people employedby an NHS trust to oversee disabilityequality issues.32
Achievements in the North West1998During the 1990s Manchester City Councilsets out to change the way trainingand employment are offered to localdisabled people. Disabled people arepromised support to find real jobs (paidor voluntary), and training to do thework they want. Lorraine Gradwell MBEis appointed to develop the partnershipsto set up Breakthrough UK, a disabledpeople’s organisation which offers supportfor employment and independent living.On July 1, 1998, Breakthrough UK beginsproviding training and employment servicesunder contract to Manchester City Council.2002Breakthrough UK opens its employmentsupport and advocacy service in Liverpool.2011The Manchester Area Partnership (includingManchester City Council, Oldham Council,Bury Council, Stockport MetropolitanBorough Council and Trafford Council)begins its Right to Control trailblazerproject. Breakthrough UK wins the tenderto provide a centre for independent livingacross the partnership.2001The first Dadafest, the Disability andDeaf Arts festival, is held in Liverpool.The festival continues to this day as abiennial event and remains truly ambitiousand international in scale, attractingdisabled and Deaf artists from all overthe world.33
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