PCS and Include Me TOO Forge Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Disability Rights and Inclusive Development

London, United Kingdom — People-Centred Strategies (PCS) and Include Me TOO (IMT) have announced a new partnership aimed at strengthening disability rights, improving access to essential services, and advancing inclusive development across communities in the UK and internationally. The collaboration combines PCS’s expertise in strategic social policy with IMT’s specialist knowledge in disability inclusion, advocacy, and community support.

Across the world, more than 1.3 billion people—one in six of us—live with a disability, according to the World Health Organization. Yet despite decades of progress, persons with disabilities remain among the most marginalised groups globally. Many continue to face significant barriers in accessing education, healthcare, employment, public information, transport, and social protection. The UN reports that only 28% of persons with significant disabilities receive the benefits they are entitled to, and in many regions, children with disabilities are three to four times less likely to attend school than their peers.

“This is not just a development challenge; it is a question of dignity and justice,” said Layne Robinson, Founder of People-Centred Strategies, who has previously led Commonwealth-wide programmes focused on inclusive development and disability rights. “Persons with disabilities continue to struggle for equitable access to basic services—services many of us take for granted. Our work going forward must tackle these barriers head-on, not only through policy but through community-level transformation that informs national solutions.”

The new partnership is designed to do exactly that. Include Me TOO will provide PCS with specialist, practical guidance on disability rights, accessibility, and community-led inclusion approaches, ensuring that disability considerations are embedded in PCS’s advisory services, programmes, and national policy work.

IMT brings years of experience supporting children, young people, and families with disabilities, advocating for inclusive services, and training organisations on best practice models. By integrating this expertise into PCS’s policy and systems-strengthening work, the partnership seeks to create a rigorous “local-to-national” pathway—piloting what works at community level, demonstrating impact, and scaling up evidence for policy reform.

“This partnership is about shifting systems,” Robinson added. “If we want national policies that genuinely work for persons with disabilities, they must be informed by lived experience and tested in real communities. IMT’s insight will help PCS ensure our strategies are not just technically sound, but genuinely inclusive, practical, and rooted in the realities people face every day.”

The collaboration builds on Robinson’s extensive work across the Commonwealth, where he previously championed disability inclusion through youth development frameworks, equality agendas, ministerial consultations, and regional capacity-building work. PCS aims to continue strengthening this legacy by integrating disability rights across its future social policy, governance, and development initiatives.

As global movements push for more inclusive societies, the PCS–IMT partnership represents a timely commitment to ensuring persons with disabilities are not left behind. Through evidence-driven strategies and community-grounded practice, the partnership sets out to support better systems—and brighter futures—for millions of people whose rights and potential continue to be overlooked.