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Is the front page headline in today's Guardian (28.04.09.). The story tells us there is a fourth key person resignation threatened and that key person is Sir Bert Massie who headed one of the predecessor organisations, The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) – a body that had been doing excellent work before it was absorbed into the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in Autumn 2007. As a long time campaigner for disability rights, I had frequently used the advice of and information from the DRC, especially to do with their work in implementing and promoting the statutory requirement in the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 for every public body to set up and practice within a Disability Equality Scheme (DES). Indeed, at the time of their demise the DRC were hotly pursuing central government departments because they had neglected to establish their own DESs. It is important to note here that the DRC was embarrassing the Government by their effectiveness in carry...