Disabled people should be more recognized in the honors system as part of the government’s impulse to make the awards reach a wider range of people, says Carly Jones, a defender of the rights of autistic women and girls.
But she tells BBC News that she has seen firsthand how people’s attitudes need to change, even after MBE was named in 2018.
Carly remembers having been in a doctors surgery where there was a call to a miss Emby.
“We are all looking around and I said:” Is Jones Mbe “?” Among the award he had been confused with a last name.
“You don’t look at the type of person who would have a,” they told Carly.
“I don’t know what they mean,” says Carly, who campaigns to help women with autism in education, employment and health services.
Not only was Mbe de Carly appointed, she is one of the honor committees who decides who should receive an award, such as Knights, CBE, MBES and OBES, in the New Year and King’s birthday honors.
As a disabled woman, to ensure that the beneficial organization and community work of people with disabilities do not overlook and overlook out for granted.
An important part of that is to encourage more people to present nominations.
“Everyone knows someone who deserves an honor,” says Carly, who wants to “challenge the myth that this is an elite system.”
In terms of the Honor Committee, she says: “We can only see what is facing us.”
There is also a group, he says, that people should not think that someone has received an award only for a disability, “because that would devalue the system.”
There is scrutiny to ensure that the recurring awards of all types have worked personally very hard for good causes. “It can’t be just some who donate a million pounds and then receive a gentleman,” she says.
Carly, who was diagnosed with autism until she was an adult, experienced homeless and lived in a shelter, and the honors to reflect those who have come from a different position but who have made a big difference.
The cabinet office says that the number of people with mental and physical disabilities that receive awards has increased in the last decade, from 6.3% of the recipients in New Year’s honors in 2015 to 15% in the list by 2025.
These were not broken down by type or level of adjudication, but in general it is the highest number to the date of the winners of the disabled awards.
It is a positive sign in the impulse that honors are more representative, but is still below the proportion of people with disabilities, with the suggestion of 2021 suggestions census figures that almost 18% of people in England and Wales had a disability.
Sir Stephen Timms, Minister of Social Security and Disability, said he was “delighted to see more disabled people recognized and celebrated for their notable achievements.”
But the government has accepted that there are broader problems with many groups that are low, represented in the honors, in terms of geography and social class, participularly in the highest awards, such as gentlemen, Damehouse and CBE.
An independent president will be recruited to improve diversity and dissemination within the honors process, and Carly says they are reviewing all prizes levels.
It follows an analysis of the BBC that reveals that in the newest new year honors the honors of 6% of the prizes superior to people in northern England and 4% to people of working class environments.
New Year’s honors had more recently presented as collecting “unrecognized heroes” and “community champions.” But in practice, the highest awards were strongly biased towards people of richer origins, partly in London and the South-Easter.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says that Hey wants the honors system to be “duly diverse and reflected to the United Kingdom society.”
