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Profile: Bruce Calderwood
Director of ODI
Bruce is Director of the Office for Disability Issues in the Department for Work and Pensions. He leads the team of advisers who support the Minister for Disabled People.
The Office for Disability Issues is a cross-government unit. It was set up to champion the government's programme to deliver equality for disabled people within a generation. It was launched on 1 December 2005.
Bruce is also responsible for advising Anne McGuire on Disability Rights Legislation and the Disability Rights Commission.
He is a career civil servant who specialises in social policy with occasional incursions into IT-led operational policy. He has worked in the private offices of two Secretaries of State, and as a policy adviser to the Premier's Department in the State of Victoria in Australia. He led the cross-Government reviews that resulted in the creation of Jobseeker's Allowance and of Supporting People. Before taking on this role he was Director for Older People.
He lives in London with his wife and three teenage children.