Foreword

Hi, I’m Peter White, I’m the BBC’s disability affairs correspondent, but for the purposes of this I belong totally to East Midlands Tourism.

The idea is that we want people to be more relaxed about the subject of disability and to see people who are disabled far more as simply members of the community.

I think the idea has perhaps got around that this is a bit scary – that disability is a subject that you have to be rather wary of. It shouldn’t be like that and you don’t have to be a professional to be comfortable with disabled people. You don’t have to go on a course. People help me as a blind person on the Underground every day. They’ve had no experience; they’ve had no training. They simply perhaps know how to do it or are comfortable to have a go at it. It’s about confidence. It’s about seeing disability as part of the community.

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