Bert Massie, the chairman of the Disability Rights Commission, has accused the Government of engendering "a lazy fatalism and a low expectations culture" with the result that many disabled people have been sidelined by Government policies. As examples, he said that housing policies failed disabled people and claimed that teaching with phonics excluded deaf children.

The DRC aims to highlight the problems with an advertising campaign and suggests that the needs of disabled people are considered at the start of every government policy development programme.

Speaking on the Today programme Bert Massie said: "Across a whole swathe of public policy, disabled people have not been taken into account and because of that, the government is going to miss the target it's setting for the whole population. Our argument is that disability, disabled people, has to be at the centre of government policy across all policies, otherwise those policies will fail."