ABSTRACT
The medical model of disability encourages explanations for the discrimination and disadvantage experienced by disabled people in terms of the features of an individual's body. To create a fair city, promoting social inclusion and tackling deprivation and discrimination. People will be an equalities champion and leader in: promoting equality, challenging and eradicating discrimination, providing responsive and accessible services for Londoners and ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse population of London. The social model of disability makes the important distinction between "impairment" and "disability" and is the response of the disabled people's civil rights movement to the oppression of disabled people. Disability is caused by "barriers" or elements of social organisation that take no or little account of people who have impairments. The social model, encourages explanations in terms of characteristics of social organisation.
