Disabled people are 'treated badly'

In an online survey of 1,500 adults for the cerebral palsy disability group Scope, 85% felt people with disabilities are treated badly, as second-class citizens and more than half said they had witnessed discrimination against disabled people, or had been subjected to discrimination as a disabled person themselves.

Verbal abuse, patronising behaviour and access problems for wheelchair users were cited as the most common examples of discrimination against disabled people. And 5% of those surveyed said they had also seen a disabled person being physically abused.