Rosalie Wilkins, Baroness Wilkins

Rosalie Catherine Wilkins, Baroness Wilkins (born May 6, 1946 ) is a British politician ( Labor Party ).

life and career

Wilkins was born to Eric Frederick and Marjorie Phyllis Elizabeth Wilkins. She attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham and St Helen's School in Northwood , Middlesex . Wilkins suffered a spinal cord injury while studying at Manchester University and has been dependent on the use of a wheelchair since 1966 . In 1969 she received a Bachelor of Arts from Manchester University. From 1971 to 1974 she worked as the personal assistant to the director at the Central Council for the Disabled . From 1974 to 1978 she was an information officer with the National Association for Mental Health ( MIND ).

From 1972 Wilkins also worked for British television. For Granada TV , as part of the World in Action series, she produced the documentary The Village about a Dutch village near Arnhem that was built exclusively for the severely disabled . Wilkins co-produced and hosted the disabled magazine LINK ( The Link Program ) from 1975 to 1988 , on Central TV , a program format produced by people with disabilities specifically for this group of people, and a pioneering role in the media presence of disabled people played. Wilkins was one of the pioneers in the development of information broadcasts for the disabled. In 1981 she directed and produced a documentary entitled We Won't Go Away about the American Civil Rights Movement . She also released the documentary Statement of Intent , which traced the struggle for the Derbyshire Center for Independent Living on ITV and Channel 4. From 1988 to 1996 she worked as a freelance producer for film and television documentaries .

Wilkins was a member of the Central Health Services Council from 1974 to 1976 . From 1976 to 1978 she was a member of the BBC's General Advisory Council . She was a member of the Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability from 1982 to 1990 . From 2003 to 2008 she was President of the College of Occupational Therapists .

Membership in the House of Lords

Wilkins was promoted to Life Peeress in 1999 as Baroness Wilkins , of Chesham Bois in the County of Buckinghamshire .

She was on several special committees in the House of Lords . From 2000 to 2005 she was a member of the Hybrid Instruments Committee and from 2003 to 2007 a member of the Administration and Works Committee .

She belongs to several all-party groups . She has been Treasurer of the Learning Disability Group since 2003 . She has been Vice-Chair of the Disability Group since 2003, the Deafness Group since 2004 and the Continence Care Group since 2009.

Wilkins is also a member of several backbench committees . From 2003 to 2004 she was a member of the Joint Committee Draft Mental Incapacity Bill and in 2004 the Joint Committee Draft Disability Discrimination Bill .

Wilkins cites integration of people with disabilities , housing , international development aid and energy conservation as her political interests .

In the House of Lords, she particularly campaigned for the legal and social equality of people with disabilities. In connection with the now adopted in the UK integrated Equality Act ( Equality Bill 2010 that the law did not include a "stronger social definition of disability," criticized Wilkins) to discrimination to prevent. It is "a travesty " that more time is discussed about how severely disabled someone is than about the degree of discrimination that disabled people experience. Wilkins welcomed the law as a whole, as it strengthens tenant protection for people with disabilities, for example . Wilkins, however, together with Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton and Colin Low, Baron Low of Dalston, warned that the Equality Bill should not restrict the legal protection of the disabled that has been granted to date by the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).

On July 23, 2015, Wilkins voluntarily retired and left the House of Lords under the rules of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.

Awards

In 1983 she was awarded The Snowdon Award .

Web links

• Ms Rosalie Wilkins at Hansard (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Federation of Occupational Therapists ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Country News January 2004 
2. ↑ Disability politics: understanding our past, changing our future by Jane Campbell and Michael Oliver, p. 14 (excerpts available online from Google Books)
3. ^ Rosalie Catherine Wilkins Biography in Dod's parliamentary companion , 2001 edition, p. 702
4. ↑ Films and Filmstrips ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 93, No. 1, 55-56 (1973) 
5. ↑ Disabled people in the media - example BBC and ITV BIZEPS-Info from July 2, 1995
6. ↑ Disability politics: understanding our past, changing our future by Jane Campbell and Michael Oliver, p. 157 (excerpts available online from Google Books)
7. ↑ Baroness Wilkins ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography at RADAR People of the Year Human Rights Award 
8. ↑ The Baroness Wilkins's Biography Debretts (available online)
9. ^ ^{A b} Baroness Wilkins biography at the House of Lords
10. ↑ Rosalie Catherine Wilkins, Baroness Wilkins on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.
11. ↑ Questions remain over disability benefit plans ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Disability News Service dated October 28, 2009 
12. ↑ Disabled Peers Ready For Fight On Equality Bill ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Disability News Service dated December 16, 2009 
13. ↑ The Snowdon Award Sheme