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Founded in 1998, Disability Agenda Scotland (DAS) is an alliance of Scotland's major disability organisations. Together our experience, expertise and interests cover physical disability, sensory impairment, learning disability, challenging behaviour and mental health problems.

Working closely with the thousands of disabled children, young people and adults, families and carers involved with the member organisations, DAS aims to: 


  • Influence public policy and legislation.

  • Provide a forum for decision makers and influencers to obtain advice and information.

  • Promote a better understanding of the diverse experiences, needs and aspirations of disabled people.


DAS aims to promote the interests of disabled people whose views are hard to reach into the mainstream of public policy. Views may be hard to reach because people are not involved in consultation processes, are not included in or have no influence on lobby groups, have communication support needs which are not met or are poorly understood, or they may simply not be asked.

Members of Disability Agenda Scotland are: Capability Scotland; ENABLE Scotland; RNIB Scotland (Royal National Institute of the Blind, Scotland); RNID Scotland (Royal National Institute for Deaf People, Scotland); SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health); and Sense Scotland.