Alf Morris

Morris, a Labour MP from Manchester, used a private member's bill to pass the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, the first law anywhere to require councils to identify disabled residents and provide services, and public buildings to consider access. In 1974 he became the world's first minister for disabled people. Later campaigners criticised the welfare framing of his era, which treated disabled people as recipients of care, but the 1970 Act was the foundation they built on.