Megan du Boisson

[10] The DIG was established "a pressure group bent on changing legislation and obtaining for the severely disabled a State income in their own right.

"[11] According to Margaret Blackwood, writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics in 1981, du Boisson "uncovered undeniable poverty, ignorance and despair" and "was emphatic in her arguments that society must embrace its disabled members.

[2] The Times would write:By a combination of exquisite personal charm and firm intellectual grasp she won the respect not only of those with an immediate instinctive sympathy for her cause but of hard-pressed politicians and administrators as well.

[2]Jameel Hampton has written that the work of the DIG, and in particular that of du Boisson, compelled Parliament and the Trades Unions Congress "to engage with the welfare of disabled people," worked through the media to bring the realities of disability into the public eye, and "made it widely accepted that some sort of cash provision was needed alongside services".

[6] Her obituary in The Times stated that although du Boisson had died "without the Government having accepted any of her main objectives", she had won the battle in terms of public opinion, "now so much more alive to the needs of the disabled".