You and Yours - 22/10/2010

In 1970 the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act defined the rights of disabled people for the first time. But campaigners said the measures were not tough enough and passed on responsibilities to local authorities which councils could not afford to implement. Peter White looks at what has and hasn't changed to disability rights in the four decades the programme has been broadcasting.We'll be speaking to the architect of the 1970 law - Labour Peer Lord Morris - as well as assessing its long-term impact and how disability rights may develop in the next 40 years.