THE Governing Body has unanimously supported a private member’s motion from the Revd Dr Sue Hurrell, asking the Standing Committee to establish a Disability Welcome Delivery Group to advise on increasing the welcome to, and engagement of, disabled people in the life of the Church in Wales.

The motion also asks it to appoint a disabled person as chair, and draw the membership from all dioceses, with a majority of disabled members. It requests a report from the new group to the Governing Body in autumn 2027.

Dr Hurrell is the mother of a wheelchair-user. “Equality law is designed to spare individuals the indignity of fighting for their rights. . . It feels as if my daughter is always apologising for herself,” she said. “It’s not all about putting in ramps and accessible toilets everywhere, but also about not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

Dr Hurrell said she had been “touched and moved” by the debate on her motion: as important as welcoming and serving the needs of disabled people was, critically, their own ministry to the Church, she said.