Publications

Disability Labour produces a number of Activist Guides for disabled people who want to get involved in the Labour Party. 

These guides also contain useful information for CLPs on how to engage with disabled members and ensure that campaigning is accessible.

The Legal Handbook – Equality Act 2010 (disability) and the Labour Party (2nd Edition)
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Disabled Activist Guide to the Labour Party 
Download PDF here

Accessible Campaigning – a Guide for CLPs
Download PDF here

Activist Guide to Differently Paced Canvassing  
Download PDF here

Activist Guide to Accessible Leaflets
Download PDF here

Disability Officer Job Description and Role 
Download PDF here

Activist Guide to Zoom
Download PDF here

Activist Guide to becoming a Councillor
Download PDF here 

Activist Guide for LCF / LGC Members
How to enable more disabled members to be Councillors
Download PDF here 

An Activist’s Guide to Disabled Members Branches
Download PDF here 
There is a training PowerPoint presentation to accompany this Guide. Regional Offices or other party units wanting to deliver the training should contact us to discuss running a ‘Train the Trainer’ event.

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission publishes a useful guide to the Equalities Act for political parties.  It outlines the party’s anticipatory duty towards disabled people as well as the obligation to provide reasonable adjustment.  It can be downloaded from the EHRC website as a PDF, Word file, Easy Read PDF and Welsh Language Version PDF here

Electoral Commission Guidance on Accessibility for Polling Stations here

Labour Party – NPF Final Report 2023.  Labour’s agreed policy documents as approved at 2023 Annual Conference.
NPF Report

All these guides (except for the EHRC and Electoral Commission guides and the NPF Report ) are copyrighted to Disability Labour and can only be printed and distributed in their current format without alteration. 

If you need a copy in a different format please email: secretary@disabilitylabour.org.uk  stating which guides you need.