My father, Dick Harris, who has died aged 71, spent a lifetime working and volunteering in the disability sector, using his own experiences to encourage independent living.
He was born in Wrexham, north Wales, to Edna Harris, an unmarried teacher, and never knew who his father was. Under the circumstances in those days he would normally have been given up for adoption, but he was born with cerebral palsy and at the time it was difficult to place disabled children with adoptive parents.
